### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

829. Communication in hard copy form
(1) This section applies if a document or information is sent or supplied, in hard copy form, to a company by a person who is not a company.
(2) The document or information is sent or supplied to the company for the purposes of an applicable provision if the document or information is sent or supplied by hand or by post to—
(a) an address specified for the purpose by the company generally or specifically;
(b) the company’s registered office; or
(c) an address to which a provision of this Ordinance authorizes or requires the document or information to be sent or supplied.
(3) For the purposes of an applicable provision that authorizes or requires the document or information to be authenticated, the document or information is sufficiently authenticated if it is signed by the person.
(4) If the document or information is sent or supplied by a person on behalf of another, subsection (3) does not affect any provision of the company’s articles under which the company may require reasonable evidence of the former’s authority to act on behalf of the latter.
(5) If the document or information is sent or supplied to a company for the purposes of an applicable provision, it is to be regarded as being received by the company—
(a) where the document or information is sent or supplied by post, at the time specified in section 824, unless the contrary is proved; or
(b) where the document or information is sent or supplied by hand, at the time when the document or information is delivered.

830. Communication in other forms
(1) This section applies if a document or information is sent or supplied, otherwise than in electronic or hard copy form, to a company by a person who is not a company.
(2) The document or information is sent or supplied to the company for the purposes of an applicable provision if the document or information is sent or supplied in a form or manner that has been agreed by the company

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

832. Communication in hard copy form
(1) This section applies if a document or information is sent or supplied, in hard copy form, by a company to another person.
(2) The document or information is sent or supplied to that other person for the purposes of an applicable provision if the document or information is sent or supplied—
(a) by hand to that other person; or
(b) by hand or by post to an address specified in section 825.
(3) For the purposes of an applicable provision that authorizes or requires the document or information to be authenticated, the document or information is sufficiently authenticated if it is signed by a director or company secretary of the company or by an officer of the company authorized for the purpose.
(4) If the document or information is sent or supplied by a person on behalf of the company to another company, subsection (3) does not affect any provision of that other company’s articles under which that other company may require reasonable evidence of the person’s authority to act on behalf of the company for which the document or information is sent or supplied.
(5) If the document or information is sent or supplied to that other person for the purposes of an applicable provision, it is to be regarded as being received by that other person—
(a) where the document or information is sent or supplied by post, at the time specified in section 824, unless the contrary is proved; or
(b) where the document or information is sent or supplied by hand, at the time when the document or information is delivered.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

834. Communication in other forms
(1) This section applies if a document or information is sent or supplied by a company to another person otherwise than in electronic or hard copy form or by making it available on a website.
(2) The document or information is sent or supplied to that other person for the purposes of an applicable provision if the document or information is sent or supplied in a form or manner that has been agreed by that other person.

835. Joint holders of shares or debentures
(1) This section applies if—
(a) a provision of this Ordinance authorizes or requires a document or information to be sent or supplied by a company to the holders of its shares or debentures; and
(b) a document or information is required to be sent to joint holders of the shares or debentures.
(2) Subject to anything in the company’s articles, the document or information is sent or supplied to the joint holders for the purposes of the provision if the document or information is sent or supplied to—
(a) each of the joint holders; or
(b) the holder whose name appears first in the company’s register of members or register of debenture holders.
(3) Subject to anything in the company’s articles, anything to be agreed or specified by the holders for the purposes of this Division must be agreed or specified by all the joint holders.

836. Death or bankruptcy of holder of shares
(1) This section applies if—
(a) a provision of this Ordinance authorizes or requires a document or information to be sent or supplied by a company to the holders of its shares; and
(b) a holder of the shares is dead or bankrupt.
(2) Subject to anything in the company’s articles, the document or information is sent or supplied to that holder for the purposes of the provision if the document or information—
(a) is sent or supplied to the persons claiming to be entitled to the shares in consequence of the death or bankruptcy by name, or by the title of representatives of the deceased, or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address within Hong Kong supplied for the purpose by the persons so claiming; or
(b) until such an address has been so supplied, is sent or supplied in any manner in which it might have been sent or supplied if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

837. Member or debenture holder may require hard copy
(1A) This section applies if a document or information is authorized or required to be sent or supplied by a company to a member or debenture holder under this Ordinance or the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32). (Added 35 of 2018 s. 83)
(1) A member or debenture holder of a company may, within 28 days after the date of receiving from the company a document or information, otherwise than in hard copy form, request the company to send or supply to the member or holder the document or information in hard copy form.
(2) The company must send or supply to the member or holder the document or information in hard copy form, free of charge—
(a) within 21 days after the date of receiving the request; or
(b) if the document or information requires an action to be taken by the member or holder, within 7 days after the date of receiving the request.
(3) If a 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.