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Detailed List of Documents
Required for Registration of an Overseas Company in Hong Kong
A. Documents to be delivered for registering an oversea company
Section 333(1) - Companies incorporated outside Hong Kong which
establish a place of business within Hong Kong shall, within
one month of the establishment of the place of business, deliver
to the Registrar of Companies
for registration:-
(a) a certified copy of the charter, statutes or memorandum
and articles of the company or other instrument constituting
or defining the constitution of the company, OR, if the instrument
is not written in the English or Chinese language, a certified
translation of the instrument in English or Chinese;
(b) a list in English or Chinese in the specified form [Form
F1] of the names and addresses of some one or more persons
resident in Hong Kong authorized to accept on behalf of the
company service of process and any notices
required to be served on the company, and also:-
(i) the address of the principal place of business of the
company in Hong Kong;
(ii) the respective addresses of the principal place of business,
if any, and the registered office (or its equivalent) of the
company in the place of its incorporation; and
(iii) the particulars of the directors and secretary of the
company as mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 333;
(c) a certified copy of the company’s certificate of
incorporation (OR, where it is shown to the satisfaction of
the Registrar that it is not the practice under the law of
the place where the company purports to be incorporated to
issue a certificate of incorporation, a copy of such other
evidence of incorporation as the Registrar deems sufficient)
together with a certified translation of the document in English
or Chinese if the certificate (or such other evidence) is
in a language other than English or Chinese; and
(d) except in the case of a company referred to in section
336(6) , a certified copy of the latest accounts of the company
in the form required by the law of the place of its incorporation
or, if no such requirement is in force under the law of that
place, in the form in which the accounts of the company are
submitted to the members of the company, OR a certified translation
of the document in English or Chinese if the accounts are
in a language other than English or Chinese:
Provided that-
(i) a body corporate or a firm other than a solicitor corporation,
a corporate practice within the meaning of section 2 of the
Professional Accountants Ordinance (Cap. 50) or a firm of
solicitors or professional accountants shall not be authorized
to accept on behalf of any oversea company service of process
or any notices required to be served on the company;
(ii) in the case of a solicitor corporation, such a corporate
practice or a firm of solicitors or professional accountants
so authorized, it shall be sufficient for the purpose of paragraph
(b) to deliver the name of the solicitor corporation, corporate
practice or firm and its business address in Hong Kong.
B. Prescribed fees for registering an oversea company under
Part XI
Lodgment fee to be paid on delivery of documents under section
333 ............. $295.-
For issuing a certificate of registration ..........................................................
$1,425.-
For registering the documents referred to in section 333(1)
Each document .............................................................................................
$20.-
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