Companies Bill

Full Companies Bill (gazetted on 14 January 2011)

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

Schedule 1 - Parent Undertakings and Subsidiary Undertakings

Schedule 2 - Content of Incorporation Form

Schedule 3 - Specified Qualifying Conditions for Sections 359 to 362

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 Amendments

Schedule 10 - Transitional and Saving Provisions

Explanatory Memorandum