1964_COMPANIES_ORDINANCE — Page 304

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CAP. 32]

Companies

[1984 Ed.

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(iii) where the persons making any report required by Part II of that Schedule have made therein, or have, without giving the reasons, indicated therein, any such adjustments as are mentioned in paragraph 42 of that Schedule, a written statement signed by those persons setting out the adjustments and giving the reasons therefor.

The references in paragraph (b)(i) to the copy of a contract required thereby to be endorsed on or attached to a copy of the prospectus shall, in the case of a contract wholly or partly in a language other than English, be taken as references to a copy of a translation of the contract in English or a copy embodying a translation in English of the parts not in English, as the case may be, being a translation certified in the prescribed manner to be a correct translation, and the reference to a copy of a contract required to be available for inspection shall include a reference to a copy of a translation thereof or a copy embodying a translation of parts thereof.

(2) Every prospectus shall-

(a) on the face of it—

(i) state that a copy has been delivered for registration as required by this section and, immediately after such statement shall state that the Registrar takes no responsibility as to the contents of the prospectus; and

(ii) specify, or refer to statements included in the prospectus which specify, any documents required by this section to be endorsed on or attached to the copy so delivered;

(b) be printed in the English version in type of a size not less than the type known as 8 point Times and in the Chinese version in type the face of which is not less than 2.5 millimetres in depth unless the Registrar, before the issuing, advertising, circulating or distributing of the prospectus, certifies in writing that the type and size of letters are legible and satisfactory;

(c) contain no photographs or illustrations of a pictorial or graphic nature.

(3) The Registrar shall not register a prospectus unless it is dated and the copy thereof signed in manner required by this section and unless it has endorsed thereon or attached thereto the documents (if any) specified by subsection (1).

(4) The Registrar shall not register a prospectus which relates to an intended company.

(5) The Registrar may refuse to register a prospectus delivered to him for registration if it does not comply in all respects with this Ordinance or contains any information likely to mislead or misleading in the form and context in which it is included.