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THE, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31, 1936.

6. The fees and percentages set cut in Schedule III to this Order in respect of proceedings in the Winding-up of com- panies shall be taken in the office of the Official Receiver or of the Registrar of Companies, as the case may be.

7. The fees and percentages prescribed in Schedule III shall be taken in money.

8. Wherever practicable the stamp shall be affixed or the money paid in respect of every fee before the proceeding is had in respect of which the fee is payable.

9. Where the head office of the Company being wound up is situated in Hong Kong, and the liquidation takes place partly in Hong Kong and partly elsewhere, or where the Court has sanctioned a reconstruction of the Company or a scheme of arrangement of its affairs, or where for any other reason the Official Receiver satisfies the Court that the fees or percentages in Table B in Schedule III to this Order would be excessive, such reduction may be made in the said fees or percentages as may, on the application of the Official Receiver, be sanction- ed by the Court.

10. The Rules as to the fees payable in respoot of the Winding up of companies made on the 19th day of April, 1912, and set forth on pages 602 to 606 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844 to 1925 are hereby revoked.

Dated the ninth day of December, 1936.

A. D. A. MACGREGOR, Chief Justice.

Approved, concurred in and sanctioned by the Legislative

Council this 30th day of December, 1936.

T. MEGARRY,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.