Hong Kong Ordinances

BUSINESS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 8

Information to be furnished

(1) Where there occurs any change in the particulars of a business as set out
in the form of application for registration (whether such form was submitted
under this Ordinance or under the Business Regulation Ordinance 1952 (14 of
1952)), any person carrying on such business shall within 1 month of such
change notify the Commissioner in writing thereof.

(2) Where a business ceases to be carried on, any person who was carrying on
such business shall, within 1 month of the cessation, notify the Commissioner
in writing thereof.

(2A) Where a person gives notice to the Commissioner in any return or other
document submitted in accordance with the Inland Revenue  Ordinance ( Cap 112)
of any matter required to be notified under subsection

(1) or (2), such notice shall be treated as notification by that person for
the purposes of those subsections. (Added 79 of 1992 s. 5)

(3) (Repealed 79 of 1992 s. 5)

(4) To obtain full information for the purposes of this Ordinance, the
Commissioner may give notice in writing to any person, appearing to him to be
a person able to furnish information, requiring him- (Amended L.N. 374 of
1991)

   (a)  to supply such particulars as the Commissioner may deem necessary; or

   (b)  to attend at a time and place to be named by the Commissioner for the
        purpose of being examined respecting such information.

(5) In this section references to a business include references to a branch of
that business. (Added 56 of 1984 s. 7)