### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

770. Company must change prohibited name
(1) Subsection (2) applies if, had the company applied on the date of the restoration to be registered by the former name, section 100 would have prohibited the company from being registered by that name.
(2) Within 28 days after the restoration, the company—
(a) must by a special resolution change its name; and
(b) must give notice in the specified form of the change to the Registrar.
(3) If a company gives notice of a change of name under subsection (2)(b), the Registrar must, unless the company is prohibited by section 100 from being registered by the new name—
(a) enter the new name on the Companies Register in place of the former name; and
(b) issue a certificate of change of name.
(4) The change of name has effect from the date on which the certificate of change of name is issued.
(5) A change of name under this section does not affect any rights or obligations of the company or render defective any legal proceedings by or against it. Any legal proceedings that could have been commenced or continued by or against it by its former name may be commenced or continued by or against it by its new name.
(6) If the company contravenes subsection (2) the company, and every responsible person of the company, commit an offence, and each is liable to a fine at level 3 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of $300 for each day during which the offence continues.
(7) In this section—
former name (前有名稱), in relation to a company restored to the Companies Register under this Division, means the name that the company had immediately before it was dissolved.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

771. Registrar may direct company to change same or similar name etc.
(1) The Registrar may by notice in writing direct a company to change, within the period specified in the notice, a name under which the company is restored to the Companies Register under this Division if—
(a) the name is, as at the time of the restoration, the same as or in the Registrar’s opinion too like a name that appeared or should have appeared in the index of names kept under section 22C of the predecessor Ordinance or in the Index of Company Names; or
(b) the name is, as at the time of the restoration, the same as or in the Registrar’s opinion too like a name of a body corporate incorporated or established under an Ordinance.
(2) A direction may only be given within 12 months after the restoration.
(3) The Registrar may, before the end of the period specified in a notice given under subsection (1), by notice in writing extend the period.
(4) If a company fails to comply with a direction within the period specified in the notice or extended under subsection (3), the company, and every responsible person of the company, commit an offence, and each is liable to a fine at level 6 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of $2,000 for each day during which the offence continues.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

772. Registrar may change company name in case of failure to comply with direction
(1) This section applies if—
(a) a company contravenes section 770(2) in relation to a name; or
(b) the Registrar directs a company to change a name under section 771(1), and the company fails to comply with the direction within the period specified in the notice or, if the period is extended under 771(3), within the extended period.
(2) Without limiting section 770(6) or 771(4), the Registrar may change the name to—
(a) in the case of an English name, a name that consists of the words “Company Registration Number” as its prefix, followed by the registration number of the company as stated in the certificate of incorporation;
(b) in the case of a Chinese name, a name that consists of the Chinese characters “公司註冊編號” as its prefix, followed by the registration number of the company as stated in the certificate of incorporation; or
(c) in the case of a name consisting of both an English name and a Chinese name—
(i) a new English name that consists of the words “Company Registration Number” as its prefix, followed by the registration number of the company as stated in the certificate of incorporation; and
(ii) a new Chinese name that consists of the Chinese characters “公司註冊編號” as its prefix, followed by the registration number of the company as stated in the certificate of incorporation.
(3) The Registrar must enter the new name in the Companies Register in place of the former name.
(4) The change of name has effect from the date on which the new name is entered in the Companies Register.
(5) Within 30 days after the date of entering the new name in the Companies Register, the Registrar—
(a) must notify the company in writing of—
(i) the fact that the name of the company has been changed;
(ii) the new name; and
(iii) the date on which the change takes effect under subsection (3); and
(b) must publish a notice of that fact, the new name and that date in the Gazette.
(6) A change of name under this section does not affect any rights or obligations of the company or render defective any legal proceedings by or against it. Any legal proceedings that could have been commenced or continued by or against it by its former name may be commenced or continued by or against it by its new name.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

773. Effect of restoration on bona vacantia property or right
(1) The Government may dispose of or otherwise deal with any property or right vested in it under section 292 of the predecessor Ordinance or section 752(1), or an interest in the property or right, in the same manner as it may dispose of or otherwise deal with any other property or right vested in it as bona vacantia, even though the company may be restored to the Companies Register under this Division or section 290 of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32). (Amended 35 of 2018 s. 73)
(2) Subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) apply if the company is restored to the Companies Register.
(3) The restoration does not affect the disposition or dealing.
(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the effect of the restoration in relation to any other property or right previously vested in or held on trust for the company.
(5) If any property, right or interest is still vested in the Government at the time of the restoration, it revests in the company subject to any liability, interest or claim that was attached to the property, right or interest immediately before the revest.
(6) Subject to subsection (7), the Government must pay to the company—
(a) if the Government received any consideration for the property, right or interest disposed of or otherwise dealt with, an amount equal to—
(i) the amount of the consideration; or
(ii) the value of the consideration as at the date of the disposition or dealing; or
(b) if no consideration was received, an amount equal to the value of the property, right or interest disposed of or otherwise dealt with as at the date of the disposition or dealing.
(7) There may be deducted from the amount payable under subsection (6) the Government’s reasonable costs in connection with the disposition or dealing to the extent that the costs have not been paid to the Government as a condition of a restoration under section 762 or pursuant to a direction under section 768.