ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to amend The Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1909." [No. 22.] F. D. LUGARD, Governor. [June 9, 1911.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1911," and shall be read and construed as one with "The Patents Ordinance, 1892,"* and "The Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1909,"† hereinafter called "the Amending Ordinance," and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may hereafter be cited as "The Patents Ordinances, 1892 to 1911." 2. Section 4 of the Amending Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: In sub-section (1) by the substitution of the words "Governor in Council" for the word "Governor." 3. Section 5 of the Amending Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: (a.) In sub-section (1) by the substitution of the word and figure "sub-section (2)" for the words and figures "sub-sections (2) and (3)," and by the substitution of the words "in force on the 13th day of August, 1909," for the words " now in force." (b.) By the repeal of sub-section (2). (c.) By the renumbering of sub-section (3) so as to read (2), and by the addition at the end thereof of the following provisos : "Provided that an order of revocation made under section 27 of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, 7 Edw. VII, c. 29 ( The Patents and Designs Act, 1907 '‡), shall not operate so as to revoke or to constitute a ground for revocation of any letters patent granted in this Colony under this Ordinance, and provided also that letters patent granted in this Colony shall not be revoked solely on the ground that the patented article or process is manufactured or carried on exclusively or mainly outside the Colony if it is manufactured or carried on exclusively or mainly in the United Kingdom or in any British Possession." 4. Section 6 of the Amending Ordinance is hereby amended by the deletion of all the words after the word "thereof" in line 3 to the end of the section, and the words "Governor in Council" in the Principal Ordinance thereby changed to the word "Governor" are hereby restored. 5. Section 8 of the Amending Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:: In section 12 by the substitution of the words "Governor in + Page 460. * Vol. LXXXV, page 538. Vol. CI, page 28. Council" for the word "Governor" throughout the said section. 6. Sections 3 and 7 of the Amending Ordinance are hereby repealed, and the words thereby deleted from sections 3 and 8 of the Principal Ordinance are hereby restored. Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 8th day of June, 1911. C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 9th day of June, 1911. W. D. BARNES, Colonial Secretary. ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to amend "The Foreign Offenders Detention Ordinance. 1872."* [No. 23.] F. D. LUGARD, Governor. [June 9, 1911.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Offenders Detention Amendment Ordinance, 1911." 2. "The Foreign Offenders Detention Ordinance, 1872,"† is hereby amended as follows:: (a.) In the preamble by the deletion of the words "to their respective countries." (b.) In section 3 thereof by the deletion of the words "to his own country." (c.) In section 5 thereof by the deletion of the word "and" at the end of sub-section (3) and by the repeal of sub-section (4). (d.) By the deletion of all the words in section 6 and by the substitution of the following words: "The magistrate shall commit the offender to gaol, there to await the order of the Governor." Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 8th day of June, 1911. C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 9th day of June, 1911. W. D. BARNES, Colonial Secretary. * Amended by Ordinance No. 43 (1911), page 471 Repealed by Ordinance No. 43 (1911), page 471. ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to further amend "The Opium Ordinance, 1909." [No. 39.] [August 31, 1911.] F. D. LUGARD, Governor. BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1911." 2. "The Opium Ordinance, 1909,"* as amended by "The Opium Amendment Ordinance, 1910," and by "The Opium Amendment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1910," is hereby further amended by the repeal of section 3 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section: : "3.-(1.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of, any raw opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof, if such importation shall have been notified in the Gazette' in pursuance of any resolution of the Legislative Council as being illegal. 66 "(2.) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to opium imported by or for the use of the opium farmer with the written consent of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports previously obtained, and further shall not apply to opium brought into the Colony or into the waters thereof on any steamship under a bill of lading to some place to which such opium may, by the laws of such place, be lawfully imported, provided that such opium shall not be removed from such steamship whilst in the waters of the Colony. "(3.) No person shall import, or aid or abet the importation of, any loose opium into the Colony or into the waters thereof." 3. The reference in section 8 (1) of "The Opium Ordinance, 1909," to section 3 thereof shall be deemed to be a reference to the new section 3 substituted by this Ordinance. Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 31st day of August, 1911. C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 31st day of August, 1911. WARREN BARNES, Colonial Secretary. * Vol. CII, page 500. † Page 462. Page 466. ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to amend "The Foreign Offenders Detention Amendment Ordinance, 1911."* [No. 43.] F. D. LUGARD, Governor. [November 17, 1911.] Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- : 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Offenders (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1911." 2. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of section 2 of "The Foreign Offenders Detention Amendment Ordinance, 1911," are hereby repealed and the words and figures in "The Foreign Offenders Detention Ordinance, 1872,"t deleted or repealed by the said paragraphs are hereby restored. Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 16th day of November, 1911. C. CLEMENTI, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 17th day of November, 1911. A. W. BREWIN, Colonial Secretary. ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to provide for the Registration of Chinese Partnerships, and to enable Partners therein to Register and thereby to Limit their Liability. [No. 53.] F. D. LUGARD, Governor. [December 1, 1911.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Chinese Partnerships Ordinance, 1911," and shall apply only to such partnerships carrying on business in the Colony as in the opinion of the Registrar of companies can properly be described as Chinese partnerships. 2. In the construction of this Ordinance the following words and expressions shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in this section, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction: * Page 469. + Vol. LXIII, page 1218. (6 "Firm," "firm name," and "business" have the same meanings as in "The Partnership Ordinance, 1897." "Registered partner" shall mean any partner including a firm, a family "tong," or a body corporate who or which is registered as such under this Ordinance. Registrar of Companies" shall mean the officer appointed for the registration of companies under "The Companies Ordinance, 1865," or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same. "The Court" shall mean the Supreme Court. "Full name" shall, in the case of a person who carries on business in more than one name, include all the names, whether “trong names or otherwise, in which such person carries on business; and in the case of persons with Chinese names or of Chinese origin, shall include his surname and "Pit Tsz," and the place of his birth and the district in China to which he belongs. "Hung Kú' shareholder" means a person who is registered as such in a registered partnership and who holds a "hung kú,” or red share, and is a person who is entitled to no interest on capital, but who shares with the partners the surplus profit after interest on capital has been paid. 3. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance Chinese partnerships and partners therein may register in the manner and subject to the conditions by this Ordinance provided. 4.-(1.) No partnership may register under this Ordinance unless one at least of its partners registers as a partner therein. (2.) Firms or family "t'ongs" may be registered as partners in a registered partnership, provided that a firm or family “ trong so registered shall be regarded, so far as the partnership in which it is registered is concerned, as one person, and provided also that one partner only in the firm or one member only of the "t'ong" shall be registered as a representative of the firm or "t'ong" so registering as aforesaid, and provided also that no person may be registered as a representative of a firm or "tong" unless the Registrar of Companies is satisfied that he has the authority of the other members of his firm or the adult members of his "t'ong" to be registered as their representative in the registered partnership, and unless one month shall have elapsed since an announcement of his intention to apply for registration as a representative of the firm or "t'ong" in question shall have been published in the "Gazette" and in two Chinese daily newspapers circulating in the Colony. (3.) The Registrar of Companies shall register the names of all members of a family "t'ong," disclosed to him by such representative, including infants of any age; and thereafter members so registered shall have their liability limited in the same manner as if they were registered as partners under this Ordinance. (4.) Bodies corporate may be registered as partners in a registered partnership. 5.-(1.) The liability of each partner in a registered partner |