FOREIGN CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE
- CHAPTER 437

FOREIGN CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE - LONG TITLE  
Long title VerDate:30/06/1997



An Ordinance to provide for the corporate status in Hong Kong of bodies 
established or formerly established under the laws of certain territories 
outside Hong Kong.
(Enacted 1993)

[29 October 1993]

(Originally 73 of 1993)



FOREIGN CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 1
Short title VerDate:30/06/1997



This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Corporations Ordinance.
(Enacted 1993)



FOREIGN CORPORATIONS ORDINANCE - SECT 2
Recognition of corporate status of certain foreign corporations VerDate:30/06/1997




(1)	If at any time-

        (a)	a question arises as to whether a body, which purports to have 
or which appears to have lost corporate status under the laws of a 
territory outside Hong Kong which is not at that time a recognized State, 
should or should not be regarded as having legal personality as a body 
corporate under the law of Hong Kong; and

        (b)	it appears that the laws of that territory are at that time 
applied by a settled court system in that territory,
that question and any other material question relating to the body shall 
be determined (and account shall be taken of those laws) as if that 
territory were a recognized State.

(2)	For the purposes of subsection (1)-

        (a)	"a recognized State" is a territory which is recognized by Her 
Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom as a State;

        (b)	the laws of a territory which is so recognized shall be taken 
to include the laws of any part of the territory which are acknowledged by 
the federal or other central government of the territory as a whole; and

        (c)	a material question is a question (whether as to capacity, 
constitution or otherwise) which, in the case of a body corporate, falls 
to be determined by reference to the laws of the territory under which the 
body is established.

(3)	Any registration or other thing done at a time before the 
coming into operation of this section shall be regarded as valid if it 
would have been valid at that time, had subsections (1) and (2) been in 
operation.
(Enacted 1993)

        (a)	"a recognized State" is a territory which is recognized by Her 
Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom as a State;

        (b)	the laws of a territory which is so recognized shall be taken 
to include the laws of any part of the territory which are acknowledged by 
the federal or other central government of the territory as a whole; and

        (c)	a material question is a question (whether as to capacity, 
constitution or otherwise) which, in the case of a body corporate, falls 
to be determined by reference to the laws of the territory under which the 
body is established.