### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

775. Certified copy
(1) For the purposes of this Part, a copy of a document is a certified copy if it is certified as a true copy of the document by a person specified in subsection (2).
(2) The person is—
(a) if the copy is certified in the non-Hong Kong company’s place of incorporation—
(i) an official of the government of that place to whose custody the original of the document is committed;
(ii) a notary public practising in that place;
(iii) a lawyer practising in that place;
(iv) a professional accountant practising in that place;
(v) an officer of a court of law duly authorized by the law of that place to certify documents for any judicial or other legal purpose; or
(vi) a professional company secretary practising in that place;
(b) if the copy is certified in Hong Kong—
(i) a notary public practising in Hong Kong;
(ii) a solicitor practising in Hong Kong;
(iii) a certified public accountant (practising);
(iv) an officer of the court in Hong Kong who is authorized by law to certify documents for any judicial or other legal purpose;
(v) a consular officer of the non-Hong Kong company’s place of incorporation; or
(vi) a professional company secretary practising in Hong Kong;
(c) an officer of the non-Hong Kong company; or
(d) an authorized representative of the registered non-Hong Kong company.
(3) The Secretary may, by notice published in the Gazette, amend subsection (2).

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

776. Certain non-Hong Kong companies must apply for registration
(1) This section applies to—
(a) a non-Hong Kong company that establishes a place of business in Hong Kong on or after the commencement date of this Part; and
(b) a non-Hong Kong company that—
(i) at that commencement date, has a place of business in Hong Kong established before the commencement date; and
(ii) had not complied with section 333 of the predecessor Ordinance as in force immediately before that commencement date.
(2) A non-Hong Kong company falling within subsection (1)(a) must, within one month after the establishment of the place of business, apply to the Registrar for registration as a registered non-Hong Kong company.
(3) A non-Hong Kong company falling within subsection (1)(b) must, within one month after the commencement date of this Part, apply to the Registrar for registration as a registered non-Hong Kong company.
(4) An application under subsection (2) or (3)—
(a) must be in the specified form;
(b) must contain the particulars prescribed by procedural regulations;
(c) must contain the required details of at least one person who is proposed to be an authorized representative on registration of the non-Hong Kong company;
(d) must be accompanied by the documents prescribed by procedural regulations; and
(e) must be delivered to the Registrar.
(5) If none of the non-Hong Kong company’s domestic names is in characters of the Latin alphabet or in Chinese, an application under subsection (2) or (3) must also contain— (Amended 35 of 2018 s. 75)
(a) where the company has one domestic name, a certified translation of that name in English or Chinese, or both; or
(b) where the company has more than one domestic name, a certified translation of one of those names in English or Chinese, or both.
(6) If a non-Hong Kong company contravenes subsection (2) or (3), the company, every responsible person of the company, and every agent of the company who authorizes or permits the contravention, commit an offence, and each is liable to a fine at level 5 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of $1,000 for each day during which the offence continues.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

777. Registration of non-Hong Kong company
(1) On receiving an application under section 776(2) or (3), the Registrar must register the non-Hong Kong company as a registered non-Hong Kong company.
(2) If the application is not required by section 776(5) to contain a certified translation of a domestic name, the Registrar must enter in the Companies Register, as a corporate name—
(a) the non-Hong Kong company’s domestic name in characters of the Latin alphabet, or that company’s domestic name in Chinese, or both; and (Amended 35 of 2018 s. 76)
(b) the certified translation, in English or Chinese, of a domestic name (if any) contained in the application pursuant to procedural regulations.
(3) If the application contains a certified translation of a domestic name for the purposes of section 776(5), the Registrar must enter that translation in the Companies Register as a corporate name.
(4) On registering a non-Hong Kong company under subsection (1), the Registrar—
(a) must issue to the company a certificate of registration, with the Registrar’s signature, certifying the registration; and
(b) must register the application and accompanying documents.

### Companies Ordinance 《公司條例》

779. Registration of corporate name
(1) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(1), (2), (3), (5), (6) or (7), the Registrar—
(a) must make a note in the Companies Register to the effect that there is a change of corporate name;
(b) must issue to the registered non-Hong Kong company a fresh certificate of registration containing the current corporate name; and
(c) must register the return and accompanying documents.
(2) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(1), the Registrar must also enter in the Companies Register, as a corporate name, the registered non-Hong Kong company’s new domestic name.
(3) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(2), and the return is not required by section 778(9) to contain a certified translation of a new domestic name, the Registrar must also enter in the Companies Register, as a corporate name—
(a) the registered non-Hong Kong company’s new domestic name; and
(b) the certified translation, in English or Chinese, of that domestic name (if any) contained in the return pursuant to procedural regulations.
(4) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(2), and the return contains a certified translation of a new domestic name for the purposes of section 778(9), the Registrar must also enter that translation in the Companies Register as a corporate name.
(5) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(3) or (7), and the return contains the particulars required by section 778(3)(b) or (7)(b), the Registrar must also enter in the Companies Register as a corporate name the new domestic name, or the certified translation of a domestic name, contained in the return.
(6) If the Registrar receives a return under section 778(5) or (6), the Registrar must also enter in the Companies Register, as a corporate name, the certified translation of the domestic name contained in the return.
(7) On a note being made under subsection (1)(a), a name entered in the Companies Register as an approved name in relation to the old corporate name is no longer an approved name, and the Registrar must make another note in the Companies Register to that effect.
(8) On an entry being made under subsection (2) or (3), a translation of a domestic name of the registered non-Hong Kong company that is entered in the Companies Register as a corporate name of the company is no longer a corporate name if it is in the same language as the new domestic name, and the Registrar must make a note in the Companies Register to that effect.