174
CAP. 32]
(Cap. 177.)
Place where
register of
directors and secretaries may be kept.
Companies
[1984 Ed.
(a) a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company are accustomed to act shall be deemed to be a director and officer of the company;
(b) the expression "forename" includes a Christian or given name;
(c) the expression "identity card" means an identity card issued under the Registration of Persons Ordinance;
(d) the expression "residential address" does not include an address at a hotel unless the person to whom it relates is stated, for the purposes of this section, to have no other permanent address, nor does it include a post office box number unless coupled with a residential address;
(e) in the case of a person usually known by a title different from his surname, the expression "surname" means that title;
(f) references to a former forename or surname do not include
(i) in the case of a person usually known by a title different from his surname, the name by which he was known previous to the adoption of or succession to the title; or
(ii) in the case of any person, a former forename or surname where that forename or surname was changed or disused before the person bearing the name attained the age of 18 years or has been changed or disused for a period of not less than 20 years; or
(iii) in the case of a married woman, the name or surname by which she was known previous to the marriage.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 115)
158A. (1) The register of directors and secretaries of a company shall be kept at its registered office:
Provided that----
(a) if the work of making it up is done at an office of the company other than the registered office of the company, it may be kept at that other office; and
(b) if the company arranges with some other person for the making up of the register to be undertaken on behalf of the company by that other person, it may be kept at the office of that other person at which the work is done.
so, however, that it shall not be kept at a place outside Hong Kong.
(2) Every company shall send notice to the Registrar in the prescribed form of the place where its register of directors and secretaries is kept and of any change in that place: