THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD NOVEMBER, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 357.
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The Opium Dross Farm has been sold to Mr. ÜN LING of the Ming Mau Shang Shop, No. 1, Wing Lok Street, Victoria, for one year commencing on the 1st day of March, 1884, and ending on the last day of February, 1885, for the sum of $12,600.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1883.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 358.
The following Imperial Act of Parliament is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1883.
(46 & 47 VICTORIA.)
CHAPTER 30.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
An Act to authorise Companies registered under the Companies Act, 1862,
to keep Local Registers of their Members in British Colonies.
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[20th August, 1883.]
HEREAS many companies registered under the Companies Act, 1862, carry on business in British colonies, and dealings in their shares are frequent in such colonies, but delay, inconvenience, and expense are occasioned by reason of the absence of any legal provision for keeping local registers of members, and it is expedient that such provisions as this Act contains be made in that behalf:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
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A.D. 1883.
construction.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Companies (Colonial Registers) Short title and Act, 1883; and this Act shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be con- strued as one with the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1880, and the said Acts and this Act may be referred to as the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1883.
2. In this Act the term " company" means a company registered under the Com- Definitions. panies Act, 1862, and having a capital divided into shares; the term "shares" includes stock; the term "colony" does not include any place within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, but includes such territories as may for the time being be vested in Her Majesty by virtue of an Act of Parliament for the government of India, and any plantation, territory, or settlement situate elsewhere within Her Ma- jesty's dominions.
3. (1.) Any company whose objects comprise the transaction of business in a colony may, if authorised so to do by its regulations, as originally framed or as altered by special resolution, cause to be kept in any colony in which it transacts business a branch register or registers of members resident in such colony.
(2.) The company shall give to the registrar of joint stock companies notice of the situation of the office where any such branch register (in this Act called a colonial register) is kept, and of any change therein, and of the discontinuance of any such office in the event of the same being discontinued.
(3.) A colonial register shall, as regards the particulars entered therein, be deemed to be a part of the company's register of members, and shall be primâ facie evidence of all particulars entered therein. Any such register shall be kept in the manner provided by the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1880, with this qualification, that the advertisement mentioned in section thirty-three of the Companies Act, 1862, shall be inserted in some newspaper circulating in the district wherein the register to be closed is kept, and that any competent court in the colony where such register is kept shall be entitled to exercise
Power for compa- nies to keep
colonial registers.
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