HONG KONG COMPANY SECRETARY. More than you expect.
HONG KONG COMPANY SECRETARY. More than you expect.
A Company Secretary is a legal position in a private or public company.
According Companies Ordinance (Cap.622), every company incorporated in Hong Kong must appoint a company secretary. The company secretary is responsible for arranging meetings, preparing minutes of meetings of the company, maintaining statutory books, filing statutory returns with the Company Registry, ensuring that a company complies with relevant legislation and regulation, and keeps board members informed of their legal responsibilities.
A private company must appoint at at least one company secretary. The sole director of a private company must not also be the company secretary. A private company having only one director must not have a body corporate as its company secretary the sole director of which is the sole director of the private company.
A public company or a company limited by guarantee must have a company secretary and at least two directors, one of whom may be the company secretary. It must not have a body corporate as its director. If the company secretary is a natural person, he or she must ordinarily reside in Hong Kong. If the company secretary is a body corporate, the address of its registered or principal office should be in Hong Kong.
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