Bills Committee on
Companies (Amendment) Bill 2003

Tenth Meeting on
Thursday, 8 January 2004, at 10:45 am
in Conference Room B of the Legislative Council Building

Agenda



  1. Confirmation of minutes of meeting

    2. (10:45 am - 10:50 am)

    LC Paper No.

    Minutes of meeting on 18 December 2003

    		CB(1)721/03-04
    (issued on 7 January 2004)

  2. Meeting with the Administration

    3. (10:50 am - 12:40 pm)

    Paper issued since last meeting

    LC Paper No.

    Administration's paper on offences relating to amendment of prospectuses

    		CB(1)698/03-04(01)
    (English and Chinese versions issued on 5 and 7 January 2004 respectively)

    Proposed additional Committee Stage amendments provided by the Administration on 2 January 2004

    		CB(1)698/03-04(02)
    (issued on 5 January 2004)

    List of issues requiring follow-up actions by the Administration (Position as at 7 January 2004)

    		CB(1)698/03-04(03)
    (issued on 7 January 2004)

    Other papers for clause-by-clause examination of the Bill

    LC Paper No.

    Bill gazetted on 13 June 2003

    		CB(3)733/02-03
    (issued on 13 June 2003)

    Marked-up copy of Schedule 1 and related consequential and other amendments in Schedule 5 of the Bill

    		CB(1)2228/02-03(03)
    (issued on 17 July 2003)

    Proposed Committee Stage amendments provided by the Administration on 21 November 2003

    		CB(1)387/03-04(03)
    (issued on 21 November 2003)

    Marked-up copy of the proposed Committee Stage amendments

    		CB(1)419/03-04(02)
    (issued on 26 November 2003)

    Administration's paper on Securities and Futures Commission's statutory power to make rules and statutory duty to conduct consultation

    		CB(1)598/03-04(01)
    (English and Chinese versions issued on 16 and 17 December 2003 respectively)

    Correspondence between Assistant Legal Adviser 7 (ALA7) and the Administration


    ALA7's letterAdministration's reply

    Letter dated 10 September 2003 from ALA7 to the Administration on Schedule 1 of the Bill

    		CB(1)2441/02-03(01)
    (English and Chinese versions issued on 10 and 18 September 2003 respectively)

    		CB(1)74/03-04(01)
    (English and Chinese versions issued on 15 and 20 October 2003 respectively)

    Letter dated 9 October 2003 from ALA7 to the Administration on Schedule 1 of the Bill

    		CB(1)74/03-04(02)
    (issued on 15 October 2003)

    		CB(1)84/03-04(01)
    (English and Chinese versions issued on 16 and 20 October 2003 respectively)

    Letter dated 25 November 2003 from ALA7 to the Administration on the proposed Committee Stage amendments to Schedule 1 of the Bill

    		CB(1)419/03-04(01)
    (issued on 26 November 2003)

    		CB(1)528/03-04(02)
    (issued 8 December 2003)

    CB(1)528/03-04(03)
    (issued 8 December 2003)

    Letter dated 26 November 2003 from ALA7 to the Administration on the Securities and Futures Commission's plan to set out on its website the exemption particulars granted under "all relevant prospectus-related provisions"

    		CB(1)458/03-04(01)
    (issued on 28 November 2003)

    Letter dated 28 November 2003 from ALA7 to the Administration on the proposed amendments to section 7 of Part 1 of the proposed 17th Schedule

    		CB(1)528/03-04(01)
    (issued 8 December 2003)

    Letter dated 7 January 2004 from ALA7 to the Administration on proposed additional CSAs to section 7 of Part 1 of the 17th Schedule of the Bill

    		CB(1)732/03-04(02)
    (issued 9 January 2004)     		-

  3. Any other business

    4. (12:40 pm - 12:45 pm)

    (A list of other relevant papers previously issued is in the Appendix.)
Council Business Division 1
Legislative Council Secretariat
9 January 2004

Appendix to Agenda

List of other relevant papers issued previously



Papers

Paper No./Ref.
Legislative Council Brief

L/M to C2/1/57(03) Pt 2
(issued by the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureauon 12 June 2003)

Legal Service Division Report

LC Paper No. LS134/02-03
(issued vide LC Paper No. CB(2) 2693/02-03 dated 26 June 2003)

Background Brief prepared by the LegCo Secretariat

LC Paper No. CB(1)2423/02-03
(issued on 9 September 2003)

Administration's paper on "Summary of the Proposals in the Companies (Amendment) Bill 2003"

LC Paper No. CB(1)2434/02-03(03)
(English and Chinese versionsissued on 9 and 10 September 2003 respectively)

Administration's paper on "Registration of Material Contracts"

LC Paper No. CB(1)387/03-04(04)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 21 and 26 November 2003 respectively)

Administration's paper on "Resale restrictions on shares/debentures acquired under offers specified in the Seventeenth Schedule"

LC Paper No. CB(1)292/03-04(02)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 10 and 12 November 2003 respectively)

Administration's paper on "Inclusion of "dependents" as "qualifying persons" under section 8 of Part 1 of the Seventeenth Schedule"

LC Paper No. CB(1)292/03-04(03)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 10 and 12 November 2003 respectively)

Administration's paper on "Exemption powers of the Securities and Futures Commission"

LC Paper No. CB(1)217/03-04(02)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 31 October and 4 November 2003 respectively)

Administration's paper on "Comparison of the prospectus regulatory regime between Hong Kong and overseas jurisdictions"

LC Paper No. CB(1)84/03-04(06)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 23 and 28 October 2003 respectively)

Summary of deputations' views and the Administration's response on Schedule 1 of the Bill(Position as at 26 November 2003)

LC Paper No. CB(1)387/03-04(05)
(issued on 26 November 2003)

Written submissions and Administration's response relating to Schedule 1 of the Bill

Organizations/individualsWritten submissionsAdministration's response


LC Paper No.LC Paper No.

Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong(Submission dated 16 September 2003)

CB(1)2504/02-03(05)
(issued on 25 September 2003)

CB(1)2521/02-03(05)
(English and Chinese versions issued on30 September and3 October 2003 respectively)

Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong(Submission dated 14 October 2003)

CB(1)74/03-04(03)
(issued on 15 October 2003)

CB(1)387/03-04(01)
(English and Chinese versions issuedon 21 and 26 November 2003 respectively)

Ms Alice CHAN, Lecturer, Department of Professional Legal Education, The University of Hong Kong(Submission dated18 September 2003)

CB(1)2504/02-03(07)
(English version only)
(issued on 25 September 2003)

CB(1)84/03-04(02)
(English and Chinese versions issuedon 16 and 28 October 2003 respectively)

CB(1)292/03-04(01)
(issued on 10 November 2003)

Ms Alice CHAN, Lecturer, Department of Professional Legal Education, The University of Hong Kong(Submission dated 4 November 2003)

CB(1)266/03-04(01)
(English version only)
(issued on 5 November 2003)

CB(1)387/03-04(02)
(issued on 28 November 2003)

Linklaters

CB(1)2504/02-03(11)
(English and Chinese versions issued on 25 and 30 September 2003 respectively)

CB(1)84/03-04(03)
(English and Chinese versions issuedon 16 and 28 October 2003 respectively)

The Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries

CB(1)2504/02-03(13)
(English version only)
(issued on 25 September 2003)

CB(1)84/03-04(04)
(English and Chinese versions issuedon 16 and 28 October 2003 respectively)

The Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association

CB(1)2521/02-03(01)
(English version only)
(issued on 30 September 2003)

CB(1)84/03-04(05)
(English and Chinese versions issuedon 16 and 28 October 2003 respectively)

Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises Association

CB(1)217/03-04(01)
(Chinese version only)
(issued on 31 October 2003)

CB(1)309/03-04(01)
(issued on 14 November 2003)


Council Business Division 1
Legislative Council Secretariat
9 January 2004