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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20тH DECEMBER, 1890.

Registration

of order together with memorandum

as altered or substituted memorandum and articles and

consequences

thereof.

Fenalty for default.

Definition of

the Court."

Short title and construction.

2. (1.) Where a company has altered the provisions of its memorandum of association or deed of settlement with respect to the objects of the company, or has altered the form of its constitution by substituting a memorandum and articles of association for a deed of settlement, and such alteration has been confirmed by the court, an office copy of the order confirming such alteration, together with a printed copy of the memorandum of association or deed of settlement so altered, or together with a printed copy of the substituted memorandum and articles of association (as the case may be) shall be delivered by the company to the Registrar of Companies within fifteen days from the date of the order, and the Registrar shall register the same, and shall certify under his hand the registration thereof, and his certificate shall be conclusive evidence that all the requisitions of this Ordinance with respect to such alteration and the con- firmation thereof have been complied with, and thenceforth, (but subject to the provisions of this Ordinance), the memorandum or deed of settlement so altered shall be the memorandum of association or deed of settlement of the company, or, as the case may be, such substituted memorandum and articles of association shall apply to the company in the same manner as if the company were a company registered under Ordinance No. 1 of 1865, with sucli memorandum and articles of association, and the company's deed of settlement shall cease to apply to the company.

(2) If a company makes default in delivering to the Registrar any document required by this Ordinance to be delivered to him the company shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which it is in default.

3. The expression "the Court" as used in this Ordi- nance shall mean the Supreme Court of this Colony.

4. (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as The Companies (Memorandum of Association) Ordinance, 1890.

(2.) This Ordinance and "The Companies Ordinances, 1865 to 1880," shall be construed as one Ordinance, and may be cited collectively as "The Companies Ordinances, 1865 to 1890.”

(3.) In this Ordinance the expression "deed of settle- ment" includes any contract of co-partnery or other instru- ment constituting or regulating the Company and not being an Ordinance, a Royal Charter, or Letters Patent.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 8th day of December, 1890.

F. A. HAZELAND, Acting Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 17th day of December, 1890.

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

No. 26 or 1890.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Public Health Ordinance of 1887.

LS

BE

F. FLEMING,

Officer Administering the Government.

[17th December, 1890.]

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

1. The said Ordinance No. 24 of 1887 is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) Sections 40 to 48 inclusive of the said Ordi- nance are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect anything done or suffered there- under nor any past operation thereof. (b.) Section 50 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting the words "defective or insanitary condition" for the words "defective and insa- nitary," and by inserting therein the words or of any Bye-law made in virtue of this Ordinance" after the words the provisions of this Ordinance" and also after the words "the requirements of this Ordinance."