Bills Committee on
Companies (Amendment) Bill 2003

Eighth Meeting on
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, at 4:30 pm
in Conference Room B of the Legislative Council Building

Agenda

I.	Confirmation of minutes of meeting (4:30 pm - 4:35 pm)
			LC Paper No.
	Minutes of meeting on 27 November 2003		CB(1)521/03-04 (issued on 5 December 2003)
II.	Meeting with the Administration (4:35 pm - 6:25 pm)
			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)
	Correspondence between Assistant Legal Adviser 7 (ALA7) and the Administration
		ALA7's letter	Administration'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 on15 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 on16 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 on 8 December 2003) CB(1)528/03-04(03) (issued on 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 on 8 December 2003)
III.	Any other business (6:25 pm - 6:30 pm)
	(A list of other relevant papers previously issued is in the Appendix.)

Council Business Division 1
Legislative Council Secretariat
8 December 2003

Appendix to Agenda

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 versions issued 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)
List of issues requiring follow-up actions by the Administration (Position as at 26 November 2003)		LC Paper No. CB(1)387/03-04(06) (issued on 26 November 2003)
Written submissions and Administration's response relating to Schedule 1 of the Bill
Organizations/individuals	Written submissions	Administration's response
	LC Paper No.	LC Paper No.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong(Submission dated16 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 forPersonal Data, Hong Kong(Submission dated14 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 dated4 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
8 December 2003