Companies Ordinance Cap 32

Section Num: 22A     Version Date 30/06/1997

Power of Registrar to require company to abandon misleading name

(1) If in the opinion of the Registrar the name by which a company is registered gives so misleading an indication of the nature of its activities as to be likely to cause harm to the public, he may direct it to change its name.

(2) A direction given under this section to a company shall, if not duly made the subject of an application under subsection (3) to the court, be complied with within a period of 6 weeks from the date of the direction or such longer period as the Registrar may think fit to allow.

(3) A company to which a direction is given under this section may, within a period of 3 weeks from the date of the direction, apply to the court to set the direction aside, and the court may set it aside or confirm it; and if it confirms it, it shall specify a period within which it shall be complied with.

(4) If a company makes default in complying with a direction under this section, it shall be liable to a fine and, for continued default, to a daily default fine.  (Amended 7 of 1990 s. 2)

(5) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 22 shall apply in relation to a change of name under this section as they apply in relation to a change of name under that section.

(Added 6 of 1984 s.13)

[cf. 1967 c.81 s.46 U.K.]