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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH DECEMBER, 1899.

17. From and including the date of the coming into force Certain piers of this Ordinance, any Pier coming within the operation of to be exempt this Ordinance shall, notwithstanding the provisions of from rates. Ordinance 15 of 1888 or of any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same, be exempt from the payment of

rates.

18. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day Commence- of January, 1900, and the new rents chargeable under sec- ment of tion 3 of this Ordinance and the schedule hereto shall commen- Ordinance, ce to run from and including the 1st day of January, 1900.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of December, 1899.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th

day of December, 1899.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary,

SCHEDULE.

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'Scale of annual rents chargeable under this Ordinance for encroachments of Piers over Crown Foreshore,

(a.) In the City of Victoria :

For encroachments of 500 square feet or less,.......... For encroachments exceeding 500 square feet, but not

exceeding 1,000 square feet,

120

180

For encroachments exceeding 1,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 2,000 square feet,

300

For encroachments exceeding 2,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 3,000 square feet,

480

For encroachments exceeding 3,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 5,000 square feet,

660

For encroachments exceeding 5,000 square feet, but not

exceeding 10,000 square feet,......

900

For encroachments exceeding 10,000 square feet,.........

1,200

(b.) In any other place:

Half the above scale.

No. 38 of 1899.

An Ordinance to amend the Companies Ordi-

nance, 1877.

LS

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor.

[30th December, 1889.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Companies Short title Ordinance, 1899," and shall be read with "The Companies and construc- Ordinances, 1865 to 1890," and this Ordinance and those tion. Ordinances may be cited collectively as "The Companies Ordinances, 1865 to 1899.”

(61 & 62 Vic.

2.-(1.) Whenever, before or after the, commencement Court of this Ordinance, any shares in the capital of any company empowered under the Companies Ordinances, 1865 to 1890, credited as

to grant relief for fully or partly paid up shall have been or may be issued for a consideration other than cash, and at or before the ance with

non-compli issue of such shares no contract or no sufficient contract is Ordinance 1 filed with the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, in of 1877, s. 24. compliance with section twenty-four of the Companies c. 26.) Ordinance, 1877, the company or any person interested in such shares or any of them may apply to the Court for relief, and the Court, if satisfied that the omission to file a contract or sufficient contract was accidental or due to inadvertence, or that for any reason it is just and equitable to grant relief, may make an order for the filing with the Registrar of a sufficient contract in writing, and directing that on such contract being filed within a specified period it shall, in relation to such shares, operate as if it had been duly filed with the Registrar aforesaid before the issue of such shares.

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