20388-1911-Ordinance-passed-and-assented-to--Companies-No-58-of-1911 — Page 73

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 15, 1911.

Registration

ice.

* Edw. 7 c. 69 s. 243.

Fees.

W. s. 241.

(5) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice the registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously shown by the company, strike its name off the register, and shall publish notice thereof in the Gazette, and on the publication in the Gazette of this notice the company shall be dissolved: Provided that the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer, and member of the com- pany shall continue and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved.

(6) If a company or any member or creditor thereof feels aggrieved by the company having been struck off the register, the court on the application of the company or member or creditor may, if satisfied that the company was at the time of the striking off carrying on business or in operation, or otherwise that it is just that the company be restored to the register, order the name of the company to be restored to the register, and thereupon the company shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if its name had not been struck off; and the court may by the order give such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company had not heen struck off.

(7) A letter or notice under this section may be addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has been registered, to the care of some director or officer of the company, or, if there is no director or officer of the company whose name and address are known to the registrar of companies, may be sent to each of the persons who subscribed the memorandum, addressed to him at the address mentioned in the memorandum.

PART V.

REGISTRATION OFFICE AND FEES,

283.—(1) For the purposes of the registration of com- panies under this Ordinaure, there shall be a registration office in the Colony.

(2) The Governor may appoint such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and servants as he thinks necessary for the registration of companies under this Ordinance, and may make regulations with respect to their duties; and may remove any persons so appointed.

(3) The salaries of the persons appointed under this section shall be fixed by the Governor,

(4) The Governor may direct a seal or seals to be pre- pared for the authentication of documents required for or connected with the registration of companies.

(5) Any person may inspect the documents kept by the registrar on payment of one dollar for each inspection; and any person may require a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or certified copy thereof, or a copy or extract of any other document or any part of any other document, to be certified by the registrar, on pay- ment of five dollars for a certificate of incorporation or a copy or certified copy thereof, and of forty cents for each folio of a certified copy or extract of any other document,

(6) A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered at the office for the registration of companies certified to be a true copy under the band of the registrar or an assistant registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove) shall in all legal proceedings be , admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original

document.

(7) Whenever any act is by this Ordinance directed to be done to or by the registrar of companies, it shall, until the Governor otherwise directs, be done to or by the existing registrar of companies, or in his absence to or by such person as the Governor may for the time being autho- rise.

224.-(1) There shall be paid to the registrar in respect of the several matters mentioned in Table B. in the First Schedule to this Ordinance the several fees therein speci- fied, or such smaller fees as the Governor may from time to time direct.