Chapter: 32  COMPANIES ORDINANCE

Section Num: 158A  Version Date 30/06/1997

Place where register of directors and secretaries is kept

(1) The register of directors and secretaries of a company shall be kept at its registered office:

Provided that-

(a) if the work of making it up is done at an office of the company other than the registered office of the company, it may be kept at that other office; and

(b) if the company arranges with some other person for the making up of the register to be undertaken on behalf of the company by that other person, it may be kept at the office of that other person at which the work is done, so, however, that it shall not be kept at a place outside Hong Kong.

(2) Every company shall send notice to the Registrar in the specified form of the place where its register of directors and secretaries is kept and of any change in that place:  (Amended 3 of 1997 s. 39)

Provided that a company shall not be bound to send such notice where the register has, at all times since it came into existence or, in the case of a register in existence at the commencement* of the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 1984 (6 of 1984), at all times since then, been kept at the registered office of the company.

(3) Where a company makes default in complying with subsection (1) or makes default for 14 days in complying with subsection (2), the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine and, for continued default, to a daily default fine.  (Amended 7 of 1990 s. 2)

(Added 6 of 1984 s. 116)