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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 17, 1915.

HONGKONG.

No. 31 of 1915.

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I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

17th December, 1915.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to

companies.

[1st January, 1916.]

Short title and

BE it enacted be the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited the Companies Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one Construction. with the Companies Ordinances, 1911 and 1913, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915.

Definitions.

British Company.

China Company.

China

Orders-in- Council.

Hongkong China Company.

Minister.

Registrar.

Registrar of Companies.

Registrar of Companies

at Shanghai.

Supreme Court for China.

The Court.

The Com-

2. In this Ordinance,—

British Company

means a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, or in the Colony, or in any other British possession, and includes a China Company and a Hongkong China Company.

"China Company means a company limited by shares or by guarantee incorporated under the Companies Ordi- nances, and the operations of which are directed and con- trolled from some place within the limits of the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915.

China Orders-in-Council" means the China Order-in- Council, 1904, and any Orders-in-Council amending, read with, ancillary to or substituted for the same.

"Hongkong China Company means a company incor- porated under the Companies Ordinances which carries ou some part of its business within the limits of the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place in the Colony.

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Minister" means His Majesty's Minister in China ane includes Chargé d'Affaires or other Chief Diplomatid Representative.

"Registrar" includes the Registrar of Companies and the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.

"Registrar of Companies" means the Registrar of Companies in Hongkong appointed under the Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915.

"Registrar of Companies at Shanghai" means the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai appointed under the China (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915.

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Supreme Court for China' means His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China established under the China Orders-in-Council.

"The Court" has the same meaning as in the Companies Ordinance, 1911.

"The Companies Ordinances " means the Companies panies Ordi- Ordinances, 1911-1915, and includes any Ordinance amend-

ing or substituted for the same.

nances.