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(6) An oversea company on which a notice is served under subsection (1)(b) may, within a period of 3 weeks from the service of that notice, apply to the court to set aside the notice, and the court may set it aside or confirm it.
(7) If subsection (5) is contravened, the oversea company and every officer or agent of the company who knowingly and wilfully authorizes or permits the contravention shall be liable to a fine of $500 for every day during which the contravention continues; but nothing in subsection (5) or this subsection shall invalidate any transaction entered into by the company.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 234)
338. (1) Subject to subsection (2), any process or notice required to be served on an oversea company shall be sufficiently served if addressed to any person whose name has been delivered to the Registrar under this Part and left at or sent by post to his address as so delivered.
(2) Where any oversea company makes default in delivering to the Registrar the name and address of a person resident in Hong Kong authorized to accept on behalf of the company service of process or notices, or if at any time all the persons whose names and addresses have been so delivered are dead or have ceased so to reside or refuse to accept service on behalf of the company or for any reason cannot be served, a document may be served on the company----
(a) by leaving it at or sending it by post to any place of business established by the company in Hong Kong; or (b) if the company no longer has a place of business in Hong Kong-
(i) by sending it by registered post to its registered office, and a copy thereof by registered post to its principal place of business (if any), in the place of its incorporation at the respective addresses thereof registered under section 333(1)(c); or
(ii) if no such addresses have been registered, by leaving it at or sending it by post to any place in Hong Kong at which the company has had a place of business within the previous 3 years.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 235)
339. If any oversea company ceases to have a place of business in Hong Kong, it shall forthwith give notice of the fact to the Registrar, and as from the date on which notice is so given, the obligation of the company to deliver any document to the Registrar shall cease.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 235)
339A. (1) The Registrar shall, on receipt of notice from an agent of an oversea company registered under this Part that the company has been dissolved, remove the name of the company from the register of oversea companies.
Service of documents on oversea companies.
[cf. 1948 c. 38, s. 412]
Notice to be given when oversea company ceases to have a place of business in Hong Kong.
[cf. 1948 c. 38, s. 413(2)]
Removal etc. of name of oversea company from register.
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(6) An oversea company on which a notice is served under subsection (1)(b) may, within a period of 3 weeks from the service of that notice, apply to the court to set aside the notice, and the court may set it aside or confirm it.
(7) If subsection (5) is contravened, the oversea company and every officer or agent of the company who knowingly and wilfully authorizes or permits the contravention shall be liable to a fine of $500 for every day during which the contravention continues; but ĥ
nothing in subsection (5) or this subsection shall invalidate any transaction entered into by the company.
(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 234)
338. (1) Subject to subsection (2), any process or notice required to be served on an oversea company shall be sufficiently served if addressed to any person whose name has been delivered to the Registrar under this Part and left at or sent by post to his address as so delivered.
(2) Where any oversea company makes default in delivering to the Registrar the name and address of a person resident in Hong Kong authorized to accept on behalf of the company service of process or notices, or if at any time all the persons whose names and addresses have been so delivered are dead or have ceased so to reside or refuse to accept service on behalf of the company or for any reason cannot be served, a document may be served on the company----
(a) by leaving it at or sending it by post to any place of
business established by the company in Hong Kong; or (b) if the company no longer has a place of business in Hong
Kong-
(i) by sending it by registered post to its registered office, and a copy thereof by registered post to its principal place of business (if any), in the place of its incorporation at the respective addresses thereof registered under sec- tion 333(1)(c); or
(ii) if no such addresses have been registered, by leaving it at or sending it by post to any place in Hong Kong at which the company has had a place of business within the previous 3 years.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 235)
339. If any oversea company ceases to have a place of business in Hong Kong, it shall forthwith give notice of the fact to the Registrar, and as from the date on which notice is so given, the obligation of the company to deliver any document to the Registrar shall cease.
(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 235)
339A. (1) The Registrar shall, on receipt of notice from an agent of an oversea company registered under this Part that the company has been dissolved, remove the name of the company from the register of oversea companies.
Service of documents on
oversea
companies.
[cf. 1948 c. 38, s. 412.)
Notice to be given when
oversea company ceases to have a place of business
in Hong Kong. [cf. 1948 c. 38. s. 413(2).)
Removal etc. of name of oversea company from register.
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