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TLhc aleôttne (Sa^ette publiebeb b^ Hutbotit^ No. 490 THURSDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 1935 73 CONTENTS Page BILL PUBLISHED FOR INFORMATION Companies (Amendment) Bill, 1935 ... 75 GOVERNMENT NOTICES Appointment of Deputy to High Commissioner 79 79 ־ .Appointments, etc ־Claims for Destroyed Currency Notes 79 Call Day - . "־Loss of Government Tithe Receipt 80 Sale of contents of undeliverahle and unclaimed packets and parcels 80 80 ־ Tenders and Adjudication of Contracts Citation Orders .... 81 RETURNS Change of Names - 82 Sale of Unclaimed Goods 8» Quarantine and Infectious Diseases Summary 91 REGISTRATION OF PARTNERSHIPS, ETC. - 91 92 . ׳ ~ - - CORRIGENDA SUPPLEMENT No. 2. The following subsidiary legislation is published in Supplement No. 2 which forms part of this Gazette :— Certificates under the Expropriation of Land Ordinances, 1926-1932, regarding the construction of a Weighbridge at Mount Scopus, Jerusalem and the establishment of a Carob Demon ־ - - - - stration Plot at Meirun Village 83 Council, 1922, regarding the designation־in־Order, No. 24 of 1935, under the Palestine Order ־־ - - of Chief Magistrate - 84- Notice under the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925, regarding the cancellation of a Pales ־ - - - - - tinian Citizenship 84 85־ - Ports (Sea-going Vessels) Rules, 1935, under the Ports Ordinance, 1926 Prisons (Special Treatment) Rules, 1935, under the Prisons Ordinance, 1921 - - 93 Order, No. 25 of 1935, Tulkarm Municipal Council Order-in-Council, 1935, under the Municipal ־ - - - _ Corporations Ordinance, 1934 94 Order, No. 26 of 1935, under the Urban Property Tax Ordinances, 1928-1932, applying ־ the Ordinances to the Urban Area of Hadera 95 Posting of Schedules of Rights and Partition Schedules ... 95 Exclusion of Foreign Newspapers Order-in-Council, 1935, under the Press Ordinance, 1933 - 96 Notice under the Town Planning Ordinances, 1921-1929, provisionally approving certain ־ - - - - Schemes at Jerusalem 96 Declaration under the Rabies Ordinance, 1934, declaring'certain areas to be infected with Rabies 98 PRICE 30 MILS. 24th January, 1935 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE 75 NOTICE The folloiving DR AIT ORDINANCE is made public prior to enactment in accordance with Article 17 (1) (d) of the Palestine Order-in-Council, 1922, as amended by Article 3 of the Palestine (Amendment) Order-in-Council, 1923. T. L. HODGK1N 22nd January, 1935. Clerk to the Advisory Council. (Q/25/31) DRAFT AN ORDINANCE FURTHER TO AMEND THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE, 1929. WHEREAS by an Order of His Majesty in Council dated the twentieth day of December, 1934, it was ordered that sections 103, 104 and 105 of the Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom entitled the Companies Act, 1929, or any enactment for the time being in force amending or substituted for the said sections, shall from the date of this Order extend to Palestine: AND WHEREAS it is desirable to make reciprocal provisions in Palestine: BE IT ENACTED by the High Commissioner for Palestine, with the advice of the Advisory Council Ihereol:— t. This Ordinance may be cited as the Companies (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance, 1935, and the Companies Ordinance, 1929, (herein• after referred to as the principal Ordinance) and the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance, 1932, and the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934, and this Ordinance may together be cited as the Companies Ordinances, 1929-1935. 2. The principal Ordinance shall be amended by the insertion Insertion of new of the following sections after section 35 thereof, which shall sections m the be numbered 35A, 35B, 35c, 35D, and 35E, respectively:— Ordinance. "Power for —/i\ ^ company having a share capital company 10 keep , \ 1 \ i , ., 0 , ^ branch register. maY? " s0 authorised by its articles, cause to be kept in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a branch register of members resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (in this Ordinance called a "branch register"). (2) The Company shall give to the Registrar notice of the situation of the office where any branch register is kept and of any change in its situation, and if it is discontinued of its dis• continuance, and any such notice shall be given within one month of the opening of the office or of the change or discontinuance, as the case may be. (3) If a company fails to comply with this section, it shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds for every day during which the default continues, and every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company who knowingly or wilfully authorises or permits the default shall be liable to the like penalty. 76 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE 24th January, 1935 Regulations as 35B.—(1) A branch register shall be deemed to branch to be part of the company's register of members (in this section called "the principal register"). (2) It shall be kept in the same manner in which the principal register is by this Ordinance required to be kept, except that the advertisement before closing the register shall be inserted in some new pa per circulating in the district where the branch register is kept. (3) The company shall transmit to its regis tered office in Palestine a copy of every entry in its branch register as soon as may be after the entry is made, and shall cause to be kept at such registered office, duly entered up from .e ot its branch register׳time to time, a duplica Every such duplicate shall, for all the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be part of the principal register. (4) Subject to the provisions of this section with respect to the duplicate register, the shares registered in a branch register shall be distin guished from the shares registered in the prin cipal register, and no transaction with respect to any shares registered in a branch register shall, during the continuance of that registration, be registered in any other register. (5) A company may discontinue to keep a branch register and thereupon all entries in that register shall be transferred to the principal register. (0) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance any company may, by its articles, make such provisions as it may think fit respecting the keeping of branch registers. (7) If a company fails to comply with this section it shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds for every day during which the default continues, and every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company who knowingly or wilfully authorises or permits the default shall be liable to the like penalty. Stamp duties in 35c. An instrument of transfer of a >hare case of shares registered in a branch register, shall be deemed registered in j. ke a transfer of property situate out of branch registers. Palestine, and! unles, s execute!. dj i•n any par• t.. olc Palestine shall be exempt from a stamp duty chargeable in Palestine. Provisions as to 3~)D. The High Commissioner-in-Gouncil may branch registers hv order published in •the Gazette direct that kept in Palestine. ^.sections (4), (5), (7), and (8) of section 29 and section 35 of this Ordinance shall, subject to any modifications and adaptations specified in the order, apply to and in relation to any branch registers of members resident in Palestine, of companies incorporated under the law of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, kept in Palestine as they apply to and in relation to the registers of companies within the meaning of this Ordinance. 524th January, 1935 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE 77׳ Power of High 35E. If the High Commissioner is satisfied Commissioner to that by virtue of the law in force in any country extend provisions of sections 35A other than the United Kingdom of Great Britain to 35o of this and Northern Ireland :— Ordinance to certain countries. (a) companies incorporated under that law have power to keep in Palestine branch registers of their members resident in Palestine, and (b) any instrument of transfer of a share registered in any register so kept (unless executed in any part of such country) is exempted from stamp duty chargeable therein, and (c) power exists to inspect and rectify any branch register kept in such country by a company incorporated in Palestine, the High Commissioner may by order published in the Gazette direct that sections 35A to 35D inclusive of this Ordinance shall, subject to the modifications and adaptations specified in the order, be deemed to be extended to such country." OBJECTS AND REASONS. This Ordinance further amends the Companies Ordinance with the object of allowing companies registered in Palestine to keep branch registers of their members in the United Kingdom. This is a reciprocal provision, an Order of His Majesty the King in Council having been made to enable a company registered under the Imperial Companies Act to keep a branch register in Palestine. The Ordinance also provides that if he is satisfied that other countries give similar reciprocity, the High Commissioner may extend the provisions of this amendment to such other countries. H. H. TRUSTED 1st January, 1935. Attorney-General. (Q/25/31) 24th January, 1935 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE 79 APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY TO HIGH COMMISSIONER. IN PURSUANCE of the powers vested in me by Article 8 of the Palestine Order in Council, 1922, I, SIR ARTHUR GRENFELL WAUCHOPE, High Commissioner for Palestine, hereby appoint HARRY HERBERT TRUSTED ESQ., K.C., Attorney- General to the Government of Palestine, to be my Deputy during my temporary absence from Palestine in Egypt; and in that capacity to exercise all the powers and authorities vested in me, except the power of pardon. Given by me at Jerusalem this twenty-third day of January, 1935. k. G. WAUCHOPE High Commissioner. (X/2/32) APPOINTMENTS, ETC. PALESTINE CURRENCY NOTES. APPOINTMENT. The following currency notes are stated to have been destroyed, and payment of their value has been claimed by the persons whose names are The High Commissioner has appointed :— placed against the numbers.