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ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1866.

Companies Ordinance 1865 Amendment.

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Registration of Companies.

"PART III."

"LIABILITY OF BANKING COMPANIES ISSUING NOTES"

and also shall where the words and figures "Part IV," "Part V," "Part VI," and "Part VII," occur in the subsequent part of the said Ordinance, substitute therefor "Part III" "Part IV," Part V," and "Part VI," respectively.

NOTE: The amendments in this Ordinance provided for, were incor- porated in volume I of the Ordinances published in 1866.

No. 3 of 1866.

[See Ordi- nances No. 1 of 1865, No. 2

An Ordinance to enable Companies existing at the Time of the Title. Commencement of "The Companies Ordinance 1865," or thereafter formed under any other Ordinance or Letters of 1866, No. 1 Patent, to register under the said Ordinance.

[6th March, 1866.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the provisions of "The Com-

panies Ordinance 1865:" Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

of 1877, No. 14 of 1881, No. 3 of 1883, No. 30 of 1886.]

Preamble,

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Companies Short title. Ordinance, 1866."

2. The following regulations shall be observed with respect to the registration of companies, in pursuance of this Ordinance; (that is to say),-

(1.) No company formed for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking shall register in pursuance of this Ordinance.

(2.) No company having the liability of its members limited by Ordinance or letters patent, and not being a joint-stock company as hereinafter defined, shall register in pursuance of this Ordinance.

(3.) No company having the liability of its members, limited by Ordinance or by letters patent, shall register in pursuance of this Ordinance as an unlimited company, or as a company limited by guarantee.

Regulations

as to

registration of companies in pursuance of this Ordinance.