NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSHAPPIJ ORDINANCE

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSHAPPIJ ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 301.

NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIL

To give to the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschctppli certain
facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

[26th july, 1907.]

WHEREAS a company has been incorporated in the Nether-
lands for the transaction of trading, banking and financial
business under the name of the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij under Royal Decrees of the late King of
the Netherlands whereby the liability of the shareholders
is limited to the amount of their shares respectively :
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 hav-
ing common seals can and may 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 incorporated under the law of this Colony :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Netherlandsclic
Handel-Maatschappij Ordinance.

2. The said company shall be capable in law to take,
hold and dispose of property, movable or immovable, withill
the. Colony for the purpose of its business.

3. (1) The said company may site and be sued and
take all legal proceedings in the courts of the Colony by, the
name of the Nederlavdsche Handel-Maatschppij.

(2) All writs of summons, notices and legal process may
be served on the said company by being left at the office in
Hong Kong hereinafter mentioned or at any other office in
the Colony where the business of the said company shall be
carried on.

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 be executed
and signed in the name or on behalf of the said company
under the hand and seal of the manager of the said com-
pany's agency in Hong Kong.

(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 Hong Kong of the
said company shall have an office in Hong Kong 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 memorial in the
form and to the effect set forth in the First Schedule, 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 other-
wise to the satisfaction of such Registrar.

7. No memorial shall be filed unless the authority 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 signature and seal of
one of the Secretaries of the Government of Netherlands India
at Batavia and countersigned by the British consul at
Batavia.





8. Whenever any new or other manager of the agency
in Hong Kong 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 the Second
Schedule, 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 descrip-
tion of such new or other manager and containing a state-
ment of the change or addition which may have taken place
in the facts aforesaid.

9. (1) Until such memorial as first hereinbefore
mentioned shall have been filed, the provisions of section 4
shall not come into operation.

(2) Until the memorial 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 Com-
parties as aforesaid shall for the purposes of this Ordinance
be deemed to be the manager of the agency in Hong Kong
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 Hong Kong of the said company.

FIRST SCHEDULE. [s. 6.]

Memorial made the day of ' 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche
Handel-Maatschappij pursuant to Chapter 301 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij 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 Hong Kong
of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij, 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.

SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. S.]

Memorial made the day of , 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche
Handel-Maatschappij pursuant to Chapter 301 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying on its business in the
Colony', setting forth the particulars of change 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.
newly appointed manager of the agency
in Hong Kong of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij do
solemnly and sincerely declare that the above-written memorial is
true in all respects: And I make this solemn declaration con-
scientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the
provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.
Originally 10 of 1907. Fraser 10 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue 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 office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. 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 10 of 1907. Fraser 10 of 1907. Short title. Company may hold and dispose of property. Company may sue 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 office in Hong Kong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. First Schedule. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or in facts to be filed. Second Schedule. 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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