NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ ORDINANCE, 1907

NEDERLANDSCH-INDISCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ ORDINANCE, 1907

No. 10 of 1907.

For giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij certain
facilities for carrying on its business in the Colony.
[24th July, 1907.]
WHEREAS a company has been incorporated in the Netherlands 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 tCt the
said company has in accordance with with the law of the Netherlands
no common seal and is therefore unable to exercise divers of the
powers which corporations havin. comynon seals can and may
exercise: AND WHEREAS it is expedient-to enable the said company
to carry on its business in the Colony in like ni.anner as though it
had been incorporated under the law of this Colony:-

1. The Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij Ordinance, 1907.

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

As amended by No. 12 of 1912.





3.-M The said company inay sue and be sued and take all legal
proceedings in the Courts of the Colony bY the name of the
Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij.

(2) All writs of summous, notices, and legal process may
he 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 husiness 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 re(julre to be scaled with the common
seal of the said corporation, shall be vAid 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 rnanager
of the said company's agency in Hongkong.

(2) Nothing in this section shall render invalid any other mode
of execution which may bc 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 agenes, in Hongkong of the said company
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shall have an office in Hongkong for the transaction of the business
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of the company, on the outside of which shall be kept painted and
affixed in a consplcious 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 schedule A, or as near thereto as the cir-
cumstances 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 endorsed thereon copies of the. decrees, notarial acts, articles and
other instruments, under which the company is established, and
copies of the varlous 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 memorial shall be filed unless the authority of the manager
by whom it is signed and the copies of the decrees, acts, deeds and

As aniended by No. 12 of 1912.
As arnended by No. 43 of 1912.





other documents accompanying the memorial shall be authenticated
either by the signature, and seal of offlice 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 nDless the same shall be authenticated by the signature and scal
of one of the 'Secretaries of the Governillent 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 ally change in or
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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 aloresald, shall, as soon as
may be after suell appointment, change or addition shall hase 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 placc in the facts afore-
said.

9.-M Until such memorial as first hereinbefore mentioned shall
have been filed the provisions of section 4 shall not come into
operation

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 who 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.

As amended by No~ 13 of 1912.
As amended by No, 12 of 1912.

SCHEDULE A.

Memorial made the day of 19 , by the
Manager of the agency at Hongkong of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij pursu-
ant to Ordinance, No. 1.0 of 1901 , entitled ---Ati Ordinance for giving to the Neder-
landsche Handel-Maatschappij ceitain facilities for carrying oil its business in the
Colony--- setting forth the particulais required by seetion 6 of tile Ordinance.
Situation of office of Manager.
Entire nominal capital of the Company.
Paid up capital.
Numbel. of shares.
Aniount of each Aiaie.
Amount of capital (if an.\) set aide for operations in the Colony.
Manager of file agency ill llongkong )f 4.e.
Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij do solemnly and sincerely declare that the above
written memorial is true in all repsects: And i make this solemu declaration con-
scientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statu-
tory Declarations Act, 1835.

SCHEDULE B

Memorial made the day of1 19 , by the Manager of the
agency at HongKOng of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij pursuant to Ordinance
No.10 of 1970 entitled 'An Ordinance for giving to the Nederlandsche Handel-
Maatschappij certain facilities for carrying onits business in the Colony 'setting forth
the particulars of change or changes as required by section 8 of the ordinance.

Name and deseription of new manager.
Situation of office of new Manager
Changes (if any) in such situation.
Entire nominal captial of the Company.
Paid up capital of the Company.
Number of each share.
Amount of each share.
Amount of capital (if any) set aside for operations in the Colony.

I, newly appointed Manager of the angency in Hong-
kong of the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij do solemnly and sincerely declare that
tion conseientiously beleving the same to be ture and by virte of the provisions of the
Statutory Declarations Act,1835

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 Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or infects to be filed. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined floppy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62.

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 Hongkong. Manager to file memorial with Registrar of Companies. Authority of manager to be authenticated. Memorial of change of manager or infects to be filed. Section 4 not to come into operation until memorial filed. Examined floppy of memorial to be proof. 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62. 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62.

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