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HK Historical Laws 香港歷史法例 All

ORDINANCE No. 30 of 1886 . 2053


Companies.


second letter within one month from the date thereof,

notice will be published in the Gazette with a view to
striking the name of the company off the register .

(3. ) If the Registrar either receives an answer from the company
to the effect that it is not carrying on business or in
operation , or does not within one month after sending
the second letter receive any answer thereto, the Re
gistrar may publish in the Gazette and send to the
company a notice that at the expiration of three months
from the date of that notice the name of the company
mentioned therein will, unless cause is shown to the

contrary, be struck off the register and the company
will be dissolved.

(4. ) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice the

Registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously
shown by such company, strike the name of such com
pany off the register, and shall publish notice thereof in

the Gazette, and on the publication in the Gazette of
such last mentioned notice the company whose name is
so struck off shall be dissolved : Provided that the liabil

ity (if any ) of every director, managing officer, and
member of the company shall continue and may be en
forced as if the company had not been dissolved .

(5. ) If any company or member thereof feels aggrieved by the

name of such company having been struck off the regis
ter in pursuance of this section , the company or mem
ber may apply to the Supreme Court and the Court, if
satisfied that the company was at the time of the strik
ing off carrying on business or in operation, and that it
is just so to do, may order the name of the company to
be restored to the register , and thereupon the company
shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if the

name thereof had never been struck off ; and the Court
may by the order give such directions and make such
provisions as seem just for placing the company and all
other persons in the same position as nearly as may be
as if the name of the company had never been struck off.

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