Hong Kong Ordinances

COMPANIES ORDINANCE - SECT 2B

Construction of references to parent company, etc.

(1) A reference in this Ordinance to parent company, parent undertaking or
subsidiary undertaking shall be construed in accordance with the Twenty-third
Schedule.

(2) A reference in a provision specified under subsection (3) for the purposes
of this subsection—

   (a)  to a holding company shall be deemed to include a parent company;

   (b)  to a subsidiary or subsidiary company shall be deemed to include a
        subsidiary undertaking; and

   (c)  to shares or an undertaking shall be construed in accordance with the
        Twenty-third Schedule.

(3) The provisions specified for the purposes of subsection (2) are
sections 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 129A, 129D, 133, 140, 141, 161,
161B, 161BA, 163B and 163D and the Second Schedule, the Third Schedule, the
Fourth Schedule and the Tenth Schedule.

(4) The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury may, by notice
published in the Gazette, amend subsection (3). (Added 12 of 2005 s. 3)