### Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance 《有限合夥基金條例》

51. Unsatisfactory document
(1) For the purposes of this Division, a document delivered to the Registrar is unsatisfactory if—
(a) the information contained in the document is not capable of being reproduced in a legible form;
(b) the document is neither in English nor in Chinese, and is not accompanied by a certified translation of it in English or Chinese;
(c) the requirements specified in relation to the document under section 94 are not complied with;
(d) the applicable requirements of the Ordinance under which the document is delivered are not complied with;
(e) the document is not accompanied by the specified fee payable for filing the document;
(f) the document, or any signature on the document, or any digital signature or electronic signature accompanying the document—
(i) is incomplete or incorrect; or
(ii) is altered without proper authority;
(g) the information contained in the document—
(i) is internally inconsistent; or
(ii) is inconsistent with other information on the LPF Register or other information contained in another document delivered to the Registrar for the purpose of the fund;
(h) the information contained in the document is derived from anything that—
(i) is invalid or ineffective; or
(ii) has been done without the authority of the general partner in the relevant limited partnership fund; or
(i) the document contains matters contrary to law.
(2) In this section—
applicable requirements (適用規定), in relation to a document, means the requirements as regards—(a) the contents of the document;
(b) the form of the document;
(c) the authentication of the document; and
(d) the manner of delivery of the document;

certified translation (經核證譯本) means a certified translation within the meaning of section 4 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622);
digital signature (數碼簽署) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553);
electronic signature (電子簽署) has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553).

### Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance 《有限合夥基金條例》

52. Registrar may refuse to accept or register document
(1) If the Registrar is of the opinion that a document delivered to the Registrar under this Ordinance is unsatisfactory, the Registrar—
(a) may refuse to accept the document; or
(b) may, after having accepted the document, exercise the powers specified in subsection (2) or (3).
(2) The Registrar may refuse to register the document and return the document to the person who delivered it.
(3) The Registrar may also advise that—
(a) the document be appropriately amended or completed, and be redelivered with or without a supplementary document; or
(b) a fresh document be delivered in its place.
(4) If the Registrar—
(a) has not received a document;
(b) refuses to accept a document under subsection (1)(a); or
(c) refuses to register a document under subsection (2),
the document is taken as not having been delivered to the Registrar as required or authorized by this Ordinance.

53. Registrar may withhold registration of document pending further particulars etc.
(1) For the purpose of determining whether the powers specified in section 52(2) and (3) are exercisable in relation to a document, the Registrar may—
(a) withhold the registration of the document pending compliance with a request under paragraph (b); and
(b) request the person who is required or authorized to deliver the document to the Registrar to do any or all of the following within a period specified by the Registrar—
(i) to produce any other document, information or evidence that, in the Registrar’s opinion, is necessary for the Registrar to determine the question as to whether the document is unsatisfactory;
(ii) to appropriately amend or complete the document, and redeliver it with or without a supplementary document;
(iii) to apply to a court for any order or direction that the Registrar considers necessary and to conduct the application diligently;
(iv) to comply with any other direction given by the Registrar.
(2) In this section—
court (法院) means a court of competent jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and includes a magistrate.

54. Appeal against Registrar’s decision to refuse registration
(1) If a person is aggrieved by a decision of the Registrar to refuse to register a document under section 52(2), the person may, within 42 days after the decision, appeal to the Court against the decision.
(2) The Court may make any order that it considers appropriate, including an order as to costs.
(3) If the Court makes an order as to costs against the Registrar under subsection (2), the costs are payable out of the general revenue, and the Registrar is not personally liable for the costs.

### Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance 《有限合夥基金條例》

55. Certain period to be disregarded for calculating daily penalty for failure to deliver document to Registrar
(1) This section applies if—
(a) a document is delivered to the Registrar under an Ordinance; and
(b) the Registrar refuses to register the document under section 52(2).
(2) The Registrar must send a notice of the refusal, and the reasons for the refusal, to—
(a) the person who is required to deliver the document to the Registrar under the Ordinance or, if more than one person is so required, any of those persons; or
(b) if another person delivers, on behalf of the person so required, the document to the Registrar, that other person.
(3) If a notice is sent to a person under subsection (2) with respect to a document, the period specified in subsection (4) is to be disregarded for the purpose of calculating the daily penalty under an Ordinance that makes it an offence for failing to comply with a requirement to deliver the document and that imposes a penalty for each day during which the offence continues.
(4) The period is one beginning on the date on which the document was delivered to the Registrar and ending with the 14th day after the date on which the notice is sent under subsection (2).

56. Registrar may require general partner to resolve inconsistency with LPF Register
(1) If it appears to the Registrar that the information contained in a document registered by the Registrar in respect of a limited partnership fund is inconsistent with other information relating to the fund on the LPF Register, the Registrar may give notice to the general partner in the fund—
(a) stating in what respect the information contained in the document appears to be inconsistent with other information on the LPF Register; and
(b) requiring the general partner to take steps to resolve the inconsistency.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the Registrar may require the general partner to deliver to the Registrar within the period specified in the notice—
(a) information required to resolve the inconsistency; or
(b) evidence that proceedings have been commenced by the general partner as a partner in the fund in the Court for the purpose of resolving the inconsistency and that the proceedings are being conducted diligently.
(3) If the general partner fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1)(b), the general partner commits an offence and is liable—
(a) to a fine at level 5; and
(b) in the case of a continuing offence—to a further fine of $1,000 for each day during which the offence continues.