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1984 Ed.]

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360L. (1) The accounts of the Official Receiver with respect to the winding up shall be audited in such manner as the Governor may direct, and the cost of such audit shall be charged as an expense of the winding up.

(2) In the event of the accounts being audited by a public servant there shall be paid to the Government in respect of such audit a sum equal to the fee which would have been chargeable on the audit of the Official Receiver's accounts if the winding up had been a winding up by the court.

360M. (1) The Official Receiver shall not incur any personal liability in respect of the winding up of any company under this Part.

(2) No legal proceeding of any kind whatsoever, civil or criminal, shall without the permission of the Governor be brought against the Official Receiver in respect of any act or omission connected in any manner whatsoever with any winding up under this Part.

360N. If the Governor in Council is satisfied that a company to which Part XI applies would, if it were a society registered under the Societies Ordinance, be liable to have its registration under that Ordinance cancelled by the Registrar of Societies on any of the grounds specified in section 10 of that Ordinance, the Governor in Council may order the company to cease to carry on business within Hong Kong, and such company shall thereupon cease to carry on business within Hong Kong and shall be deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning of and for the purposes of the Societies Ordinance:

Provided that a person shall not be liable to prosecution for an offence against the Societies Ordinance by reason only that he is a member of a company which has been ordered to cease to carry on business under this section.

(Part XIIIA added, 6 of 1984, s. 251)

PART XIV

Audit of Official Receiver's accounts.

Protection of Official Receiver.

Companies to which Part XI applies.

(Cap. 151.)

SAVINGS

361. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance-

(a) nothing in the repeal of the Companies Ordinance 1911, shall affect any order in council, order, rule, regulation, scale of fees, appointment, conveyance, mortgage, deed or agreement made, resolution passed, direction given, proceeding taken, instrument issued or thing done under any former enactment relating to companies, but any such order in council, order, rule, regulation, scale of fees, appointment, conveyance, mortgage, deed, agreement, resolution, direction, proceeding, instrument or thing

(Cap. 1.)

(58 of 1911.)