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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-overseas-branch-registers-hong-kong-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1313",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Overseas Branch Registers (Hong Kong) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-overseas-branch-registers-hong-kong-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which comes into force on 1st July 1997, amends Part I of Schedule 14 to the Companies Act 1985, which specifies the countries and territories in which by virtue of section 362 of that Act a company may cause to be kept in such country or territory a branch register of members there resident, by inserting a reference to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.\nPart I of Schedule 14 will thereby continue to apply to Hong Kong after 30 June 1997 notwithstanding that the Region will not be a part of Her Majesty’s dominions.\nThe Order makes a corresponding amendment to Part I of Schedule 14 to the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1313/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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