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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