NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK ORDINANCE, 1907

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK ORDINANCE, 1907

No. 3 of 1907 and No. 4 of 1907, repealed by
No. 8 of 1912.
No. 5 of 1907, incorporated in No. 5 of 1906.
No. 6 of 1907, incorporated in No. 2 of 1866.
No. 7 of 1907, incorporated in No. 3 of 1885.
No. 8 of 1907, incorporated in No. 1 of 1903.

No. 9 of 1907

An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsch-Indische
Handelsbanle certain facililties for carrying on its
business in the Colony.
[21st June, 1907.]
whereas I company has been incorporated in the Netherlands for
the transaction of trading, banking, and financial business under
the name of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank under Royal
Decrees of the late King of the Netherlands whereby the liability
of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares respec-
tiVely: AND WHEREAS an agency of the said company has been
established in this Colony : AND WHEREAS it appears that the said
company has in accordance with the law of the Netherlands no
common seal and is therefore unable to exercise divers of the
powers which corporations having common seals can and niay
exercise: AND WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the said company
to carry on its business in this Colony in like manner as though
it had been incorporaied under the law of this Colony :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Nederlandsch-
Indische Handelsbank Ordinance, 1907.

2. The said company shall be capable in law to take, hold,
and dispose of property, movable or immovable, within the
Colony for the purpose of its business.
3.-(1) The said company may sue and be sued and take
all legal proceedings in the courts. of the Colony by the name
of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank.
(2) All writs of summons, notices, and legal process may
be served on the said company by being left at the office in
Hongkong hereinafter mentioned, or at any other office in the
Colony where the business of the said company shall be
carried on.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.





4.-(1) All conveyances, powers of attorney, deeds and
other instruments of whatsoever nature which if the said
company were an English corporation would require to be
sealed with the common seal of the said corporation, shall
be valid and effectual for all purposes if the same are
executed and signed in the name or on be-half of the said
company under the hand and seal of the manager of the
said company's agency in hongkong.

(2) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other
mode of execution which may be prescribed by the statutes
of the said company and which would be valid by the law
of the Colony had this Ordinance not been passed.

5. The manager of the agency in Hongkong of the said
company shall have an office in Hongkong for the transaction
of the business of the company, on the outside of which
shall be kept painted and affixed in a conspicuous position
in letters easily legible the name of the said company.

6.-(1) Such manager shall cause a mernorial in the form
and to the effect set forth in Schedule A, or as near thereto
as the circumstances of the case will admit, verified by a
statutory declaration in writing, to be filed in the office of
the Registrar of Companies.

(2) Such memorial shall, prior to being. filed, be signed
by the said manager and shall be accompanied by or have
annexed thereto or indorsed thereon copies of the decrees,
notarial acts, articles and other instruments, under which
the company is established, and copies of the various rules
under which the business of the company is conducted, and
also translations into the English language of such copies,
such translations being verified by statutory declaration or
otherwise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

7. No inemorial shall be filed miless the avithority of the
manager by whom it is signed and the copies of the decrees,
acts, deeds and other documents accompanying the memorial
shall be authenticated either by the signature and seal of
office of one of the Ministers of the Government of the
Netherlands at the hague, such signature and seal being
verified by a British ambassador or consular officer, or
unless the same shall be authenticated by the signabire
and seal of one of the Secretaries of the Government of
Netherlands India at Batavia and countersigned by the
British Constil at Batavia.





8. Whenever any new or other manager of the agency in
Hongkong of the said company shall be appointed or any
change in or addition to any of the facts stated in any
memorial which may have been filed shall take place, a like
memorial in the form and to the effect set forth in Schedule
B, verified as aforesaid, shall, as soon as may be after such
appointment, change or addition shall have been made, be
filed as aforesaid, specifying the name and description of
such new or other manager, and containing a statement
of the change or addition which may have taken place in
the facts aforesaid.

9.-(1) Until such memorial as first hereinbefore men-
tioned shall have been filed, the provisions of section 4 shall
not come into operation.
(2) Until the meniorial by this Ordinance required to be
verified and filed in the event of the appointment of a new
manager shall have been duly verified and filed, the person
whose name shall appear in the last memorial which shall
have been duly filed in the office of the Registrar of
Companies as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this
Ordinance be deemed to be the manager of the agency in
hongkong of the said. company as if no new manager had
been appointed.

10. An examined copy of every memorial filed pursuant
to this Ordinance certified to be a true copy under the hand
of the Registrar of Companies shall be received in evidence
as proof of the contents of such memorial, and proof shall
not be required that the person by whom the memorial
purports to be verified was at the time of such verification
manager of the agency in hongkong of the said company.

SCHEDULE A. [s. 6.]
Memorial made, the day of 19
by the manager of the agency at Hongkong of the Nederlandsch-Indische
Handeisbank pursuant to Ordinance No. 9 of 1907, entitled All Ordinance
for giving to the nederlandsch-indische handelsbank certain facilities for
carrying on its business in the colony setting forth the particulars required
by section 6 of the Ordinance.
Situation of office of Manager.
Entire nominal capital oF the company.
Paid up capital.

Number of shares.
Amount of each share
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the Colony.

I manager of the agency in hongkong, of the

Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank, do solemnly and sincerely declare that
the above-written memorial is true in all respects : And I make this solemn
declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of
the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.

SCHEDULE B. [s. 8.]

Memorial made the day of 19 , by the manager
of the agency -it Hongkong of the Nederlandsch-Indische Uandelsbank
pursuant to Ordinance No. 9 of 1907, entitled ,An Ordinance for giving to
the Nederlandsch-Indische gandelshank certain facilities for carrying on its
business in the Colony setting forth the particulars of chanIce or changes
as required by section 8 of the Ordinance.
Name and description of new manager.
Situation of office of new manager.
Changes (if any) in such situation.
Entire nominal capital of the company.
Paid up capital of the company.
Number of shares.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the Colony.
I, newly appointed manager of the agency in
Hongkong of the Nederlandsch-Indische Randelsbank, do solemnly and
sincerely declare that the above-written memorial is true in all respects
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same
to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory DecInrations.
Act, 1835.
[Originally No. 9 of 1907. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Shout title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may use and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an offfice in Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Schedule A. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Schedule B. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.

[Originally No. 9 of 1907. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Shout title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may use and be sued under its name. Deeds signed by manager to be as valid as if under common seal of company. Manager to have an offfice in Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Schedule A. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Schedule B. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined copy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62.

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