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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS No. 52 of 1933.

In the Matter of The Wing On Life Assurance Co., Ltd.

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In the Matter of the Companies Ordinance 1932.

OTICE is hereby given that a Petition was on the 31st day of October, 1933 presented to the .. Supreme Court of Hong Kong by the above named Company for confirming the Special Resolution passed on the 23rd day of September, 1933 to the effect following namely:-

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(1) That the provisions of the Memorandum of Association of the Company with respect

as to read as follows:- to its objects be altered so

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(a) To grant assurance of all kinds pay ble upon the happening of all or any of the follow- ing events, namely, the death or marriage or birth or failure of issue of, or the attain- ment of a given age by any person or persons or the expiration of any fixed or ascer- tainable period, or the occurrence of any contingency or event which would or might be taken to affect the interest (whether in possession, vested contingent, expectant. prospective or otherwise) of any person or persons in any property, or the loss or re- covery of contractual or testamentary capacity in any person or persons.

To grant annuities, immediate or deferred, payable for any fixed or other period, or con- tingent as to their commencement or determination upon the happening of all or any of the events above mentioned.

(c) Generally to transact the business of a life assurance company including the sale and purchase or re-purchase of annuities and reversionary interests, and life or other in- terests of uncertain duration or commencement, and endowments for children, and all other business appertaining to or commonly transacted by life assurance companies. (d) To grant assurance of all kinds for payment of money by way of a single payment or by several payments, or by way of annuities or otherwise, upon the happenings of personal injuries caused by accident of any description or the happening of sickness or bodily and mental incapacity, and generally to carry on the business of accident in surance in all its branches.

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(e) To carry on business as tourists agents and contractors and to facilitate travelling, and to provide for tourists and travellers or promote the provision of conveniences of all kinds in the way of through tickets, sleeping cars or berths, reserved places, hotel and bureaus, libraries, lavatories. lodging accomodations. guides. safe deposits, inquiry reading rooms, baggage. transport, insurance of baggage and otherwise.

(f) To carry on all kinds of insurance business and all kinds of guarantee and indemnity business, and in particular. without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words or to the above mentioned clauses, to carry on life, accident, disease, sickness, vivorship, failure of issue, motor car, vehicular, burglary and robbery, theft, fidelity and transit insurance.

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(g) To act as agents for the issue of any bills, bonds, debenture stock, whether or not offered to the public for subscription, and to guarantee the subscription of any such securities or shares, and to act as Trustee, executor or administrator with or without remunera- tion, and to undertake trusts of all kinds and the conduct of any business connected with trusts of any description or the estates of deceased persons and to receive for safe custody.

security including the lending of money respect of which it is liable, and to apply cancelling, extinguishing or obtaining

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(h) To lend and advance money upon or without

upon policies issued by the Company or in any funds of the Company in buying up, release from any policy, contract or liability. (1) To guarantee the fidelity of persons filling or about to fill situation of trust or confidenes. and the due performance and discharge by such persons of all or any of the duties and obligations imposed on them by contract or otherwise.

(1) To guarantee the payment of money secured by or payable under or in respect of deben- ture bonds, debenture stock contracts (mortgages, charges, obligations and securities of local or otherwise, or of any any Company or of any authority, supreme, municipal, persons whomsoever whether corporate or unincorporate.

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OF confidence against (b) To guarantee persons filling or about to fill situation of trust

Habilities in connection therewith, and in particular against liabilities resulting from the misconduct of any co-trustee, co-agent, sub-agent or other person, or from the in- sufficiency, imperfection, or deficioney of title to property, or from any insufficiency. imperfection or deficiency in any security or from any bankruptcy, insolvency, fraud. or from any error of judgment or or tortious act on the part of any other persons. misfortune.

(1) To guarantee the title to or quiet enjoyment of property either absolutely or subject to any qualifications or conditions, and to guarantee persons interested or about to become interested in any property against any loss, actions, proceedings, claims or demands in respect of any insufficiency or imperfection or deficiency of title or in any respect of any incumbrances, burdens, or outstanding rights.

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