Hong Kong Regulations

COMPANIES (WINDING-UP) RULES - RULE 36

Transmission and advertisement of winding-up order

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) When an order that a company be wound up, or for the appointment of a
provisional liquidator has been made-

   (a)  3 copies of the order sealed with the seal of the court shall
        forthwith be sent by the Registrar to the Official Receiver;

   (b)  the Official Receiver shall cause a sealed copy of the order to be
        served upon the company by prepaid letter addressed to it at the
        registered office of the company (if any), or if there is no
        registered office at its principal or last known principal place of
        business, or upon such other person or persons, and in such other
        manner as the court may direct, and if the order is that the company
        be wound up by the court, shall forward to the Registrar of Companies
        the copy of the order which by section 185 of the Ordinance is
        directed to be so forwarded by the company, or otherwise as may be
        prescribed;

   (c)  the Official Receiver shall forthwith cause notice of the order to be
        gazetted; (See Form 103(1))

   (d)  the Official Receiver shall forthwith send notice of the order to such
        local paper as the court may from time to time direct, or, in default
        of such direction, as he may select. (See Form 16)

(2) (Repealed L.N. 201 of 1984)

(3) Where an order under section 168A of the Ordinance has been made, an
office copy of the order shall, unless the court otherwise orders, be served
by the petitioner on the company and on the Registrar of Companies in like
manner as, under paragraph (1)(b), the Official Receiver is required to serve
a sealed copy of the order, and where such order involves a reduction of
capital or alteration of the memorandum of association, the Ordinance and
Rules of the High Court ( Cap 4 sub. leg.) relative to such matters shall
apply as the court may direct. (L.N. 178 of 1978; 25 of 1998 s. 2) [cf. R. 41]