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Full Companies Ordinance (Ord. No. 28 of 2012) (gazetted on 10 August 2012) (pdf Format)

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Parts of the new Companies Ordinance

Part 1     Preliminary

Part 2     Registrar of Companies and Companies Register

Part 3     Company Formation and Related Matters, and Re-registration of Company

Part 4     Share Capital

Part 5     Transactions in relation to Share Capital

Part 6     Distribution of Profits and Assets

Part 7     Debentures

Part 8     Registration of Charges

Part 9     Accounts and Audit

Part 10   Directors and Company Secretaries

Part 11   Fair Dealing by Directors

Part 12   Company Administration and Procedure

Part 13   Arrangements, Amalgamation, and Compulsory Share Acquisition in Takeover and Share Buy-Back

Part 14   Remedies for Protection of Companies’ or Members’ Interests

Part 15   Dissolution by Striking off or Deregistration

Part 16   Non-Hong Kong Companies

Part 17   Companies not Formed, but Registrable, under this Ordinance

Part 18   Communications to and by Companies

Part 19   Investigations and Enquiries

Part 20   Miscellaneous

Part 21   Consequential Amendments, and Transitional and Saving Provisions

Schedules to the new Companies Ordinance

Schedule 1    Parent Undertakings and Subsidiary Undertakings

Schedule 2    Content of Incorporation Form

Schedule 3    Specified Qualifying Conditions for Sections 361 to 366

Schedule 4    Accounting Disclosures

Schedule 5    Contents of Directors’ Report: Business Review

Schedule 6    Information to be Contained in Annual Return and Documents by which Annual Return must be Accompanied

Schedule 7    Offences in respect of which Proceedings not Instituted under Certain Conditions

Schedule 8    Amendments relating to Paperless Holding and Transfer of Shares and Debentures

Schedule 9    Consequential and Related Amendments to Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32) and its Subsidiary Legislation

Schedule 10  Consequential and Related Amendments to Other Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation

Schedule 11  Transitional and Saving Provisions