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HONG KONG.

No. Rh An Ordinance to provide for the registration of Societies and for matters related thereto.[27th May, 1949.]

it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Ordinance, 1949.

2. In this Ordinance—

“society” includes any club, company, partnership, or association of ten or more persons, whatever its nature or object, but does not include—
 * (a) any company registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1932, or any Ordinance in amendment or replacement thereof;
 * (b) any company or association constituted under Royal Charter, or Royal Letters Patent, or any Imperial Act, or any Ordinance;
 * (c) any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted under any of the registered governing bodies of Freemasons in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
 * (d) any trade union registered under the Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance, 1948;
 * (e) any company, association or partnership, consisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business;