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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26, 1938.

No. 664.

COMPANIES ORDINANCE No. 39 of 1932.

The following extracts from Part XI of the above Ordin- ance are published for general information :---

Companies Incorporated outside the Colony carrying on business within the Colony.

318. This Part of this Ordinance shall apply to all companies incorporated outside the Colony which, after the commencement of this Ordinance, establish a place of business within the Colony, and to all companies incorporated outside the Colony which have, before the commencement of this Ordinance, established a place of business within the Colony and continue to have an established place of business within the Colony at the commencement of this Ordinance.

319. (1) Companies incorporated outside the Colony which, after the commencement of this Ordinance, establish a place of business within the Colony, shall within one month from the establishment of the place of business, deliver to the registrar of companies for registration-

(a) a certified copy of the charter, statutes or memorandum and articles of the company, or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company, and, if the instru- ment is not written in the English language, a certified transla- tion thereof;

(b) a list of the directors of the company, containing such particulars with respect to the directors as are by this Ordinance required to be contained with respect to directors in the register of the directors of a company;

(c) the names and addresses of some one or more persons resident in the Colony authorised to accept on behalf of the Company service of process and any notices required to be served on the company.

326. If any company to which this Part of this Ordinance applies fails to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Ordinance the company, and every officer or agent of the company, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or, in the case of a continuing offence, fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues.

Supreme Court,

26th August, 1938.

E. P. H. LANG, Registrar of Companies.

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