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

43. Registrar may direct limited partnership fund to change misleading or offensive name, etc.
(1) The Registrar may by written notice direct a limited partnership fund to change a name by which the fund is registered if—
(a) the Registrar is of the opinion that the name gives so misleading an indication of the nature of the fund’s activities as to be likely to cause harm to the public; or
(b) the name is a name by which, as at the time of the registration, a fund must not be registered because of section 9(1)(d) or (e).
(2) The fund must comply with a direction within the period of 6 weeks after the date of the direction or, if the period is extended under subsection (3), within the extended period.
(3) The Registrar may, before the expiry of the period of 6 weeks after the date of the direction, by written notice extend the period.

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

44. Registrar may change limited partnership fund’s name in case of failure to comply with direction
(1) Subsection (2) applies if—
(a) the Registrar by written notice directs a limited partnership fund to change its name under section 42(1) or (2), and the fund fails to comply with the direction within the period specified in the notice or, if the period is extended under section 42(4), the extended period; or
(b) the Registrar by written notice directs a limited partnership fund to change its name under section 43(1), and the fund fails to comply with the direction within the period specified in the notice or, if the period is extended under section 43(3), the extended period.
(2) The Registrar may change the fund’s name—
(a) if it is an English name, to a name that consists of the words “Limited Partnership Fund Number” as its prefix, followed by the identification number of the fund;
(b) if it is a Chinese name, to a name that consists of the characters “有限合夥基金編號” as its prefix, followed by the identification number of the fund; or
(c) if it is a name consisting of both an English name and a Chinese name, to—
(i) an English name that consists of the words “Limited Partnership Fund Number” as its prefix, followed by the identification number of the fund; and
(ii) a Chinese name that consists of the characters “有限合夥基金編號” as its prefix, followed by the identification number of the fund.
(3) The Registrar must enter the new name in the LPF 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 LPF Register.
(5) Within 30 days after the date of entering the new name in the LPF Register, the Registrar—
(a) must by written notice notify the fund of—
(i) the fact that a name of the fund has been changed;
(ii) the new name; and
(iii) the date on which the change takes effect; and
(b) must by notice published in the Gazette publish that fact, the new name and that date.
(6) A change of name under subsection (2) does not affect any rights or obligations of the fund or render defective any legal proceedings commenced or continued by, on behalf of or against it. Any legal proceedings that could have been commenced or continued by, on behalf of or against it by its former name may be commenced or continued by, on behalf of or against it by its new name. (Amended 34 of 2021 s. 8)

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

45. Appeal against Registrar’s direction to change limited partnership fund’s name
(1) If a person is aggrieved by a direction of the Registrar to change the name of a limited partnership fund, the person may appeal to the Administrative Appeals Board against the direction.
(2) The appeal must be made within 3 weeks after the date of the notice of the direction referred to in section 42(1) or (2) or 43(1).

46. Determining whether name is same as or similar to another name
(1) This section applies in determining whether a name is the same as or too like another name.
(2) If the definite article is the first word of the name, the definite article must be disregarded.
(3) If any of the words, expressions or characters specified in subsection (4), or an abbreviation of any of them, appears at the end of the name, the word, expression, character or abbreviation must be disregarded.
(4) The words, expressions or characters are—
(a) “limited partnership fund”;
(b) “LPF”; and
(c) “有限合夥基金”.
(5) The following must be disregarded—
(a) type or case of letters;
(b) spaces between letters;
(c) accent marks;
(d) punctuation marks.
(6) The expressions in each of the following paragraphs are regarded as the same—
(a) “and” and “&”;
(b) “Hong Kong”, “Hongkong” and “HK”;
(c) “Far East” and “FE”.
(7) A Chinese character is regarded as the same as another Chinese character if the Registrar is satisfied, having regard to the usage of the 2 characters in Hong Kong, that the 2 characters can reasonably be used interchangeably.

47. Registrar must establish and maintain LPF Register
The Registrar must establish and maintain a register of limited partnership funds to keep, in relation to each limited partnership fund, records of the information contained in—
(a) every document that—
(i) is delivered to the Registrar; and
(ii) the Registrar decides to register under this Ordinance; and
(b) every certificate that is issued by the Registrar under this Ordinance.

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

48. Provisions supplementary to section 47
(1) The information records must be kept—
(a) in a way determined by the Registrar so that—
(i) the information relating to a limited partnership fund is associated with the fund; and
(ii) a person may retrieve all the information relating to the fund; and
(b) in a way that enables a person to—
(i) inspect the information in the records; and
(ii) make a copy of the information.
(2) Subject to subsection (1), the information records may be kept in any form that the Registrar considers appropriate.
(3) If the Registrar keeps an information record in a form that differs from the form in which the document containing the information was delivered to, or generated by, the Registrar, the record is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to represent the information contained in the document as delivered or generated.
(4) If the Registrar records the information contained in a document as required by section 47, the Registrar is taken to have discharged any duty imposed by law on the Registrar to keep, file or register the document.
(5) In this section—
information record (資料紀錄) means a record required to be kept under section 47.

49. Registrar not required to keep certain documents etc.
(1) The Registrar may destroy or dispose of any document delivered to the Registrar under this Ordinance if the information contained in the document has been recorded by the Registrar under section 47 in a way that complies with section 48.
(2) If a document or certificate has been kept by the Registrar for at least 7 years for the purposes of section 47, the Registrar may destroy or dispose of the document or certificate.

50. Registrar must establish and maintain LPF Index
The Registrar must establish and maintain an index of the names of every limited partnership fund.