NEDERLANDSCHE-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK ORDINANCE

NEDERLANDSCHE-INDISCHE HANDELSBANK ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 302.

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDLESBANK.

To give to the Nederlundsch-Indiche Handelsbank certain
facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.

[21St June, 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 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
respectively: AND WHEREAS an agency of the said com-
pany 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 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 Nederlandsch-
Indische Flandelsbank Ordinance.

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 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
scaled 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 behalf of the said
company under the hand and scat of the manager of the
said company'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 mernorial 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 in the English language of such copies,
such translations being verified by statutory declaration or
otherwise 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 docurnents accompanying the
memorial shall he 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 cotintersigned 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 appohited 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 additiom shall
have been made, be filed as aforesaid, specifying the name
and description of such new or other manager and contain-
ing a statement 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 mernorial 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
Hong Kong of the said company as if no new manager had
been appointed.

10. An examined copy of every memorial filed pur-
suant 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 veriCied was at the time of such
vertification 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 Nederlandsch-
Indische Handels`bank pursuant to Chapter 302 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Netherlandsch-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.
manager of the agency in Hong Kong
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.

SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. S.]

Memorial made the day of 19
by the manager of the agency at Hong Kong of the Nederlandsch-
Indische Handelsbank pursuant to Chapter 302 of the Revised Edition,
intituled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsch-Indische
Handelsbank 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 Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank, 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 9 of 1907. Fraser 9 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. [s. 7 cont.] 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 9 of 1907. Fraser 9 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. [s. 7 cont.] 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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