Chapter: 32 COMPANIES ORDINANCE
Section Num: 141CF Version Date 04/01/2002
Form and contents, etc. of summary financial reports
(1) A summary financial report in relation to a general meeting of a listed company shall be-
(a) derived from the relevant financial documents required to be laid before the company in that meeting;
(b) in such form and contain such information and particulars as specified in regulations made under section 359A(2); and
(c) approved by the board of directors of the company.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as prohibiting a listed company from including in a summary financial report any other information or particulars which-
(a) the company considers appropriate; and
(b) is not inconsistent with the relevant financial documents from which the summary financial report is derived.
(3) If a document, purporting to be a summary financial report of a listed company, does not comply with subsection (1) and is circulated, issued or published by the company to any other person, unless there is reasonable excuse-
(a) the company shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine;
and
(b) every officer of the company shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and imprisonment.
(Added 27 of 2001 s. 6)