CSA TECHNICAL SUPPORT BULLETIN P & L Associates bring you practical advices and announcements related to CSA: the Company Secretarial Software. Issue: April 2012 F or users of CSA Professional Plus, if you are planning to upgrade your computer or operating system, please be aware that CSA Professional Plus is not compatible with the 64-bit Windows 7. You need to choose a 32-bit Windows 7 or upgrade your CSA to the newest Expert Edition. Compatibility of CSA Professional Plus to Windows 7 CSA Professional Plus was first released in 2000 (twelve years ago). It has been a stable and self-sufficient system. But there are two current issues that may affect your use of the system: (1) CSA Professional Plus can run on 32-bit Windows 7, but not on 64-bit Windows 7. (2) CSA Professional Plus can run on 32-bit Windows 7, but have problem in inputting Hong Kong Characters. Hong Kong Characters can be inputted, read, and printed under Windows 2000/ME/XP by installing the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Sets developed by the Government encoded in Big-5 and ISO10646 specifications. Unfortunately it does not have a version for Windows 7, because it adopts Unicode to manage characters of different languages. That is to say, although you can read and print those characters previously stored in the database of CSA Professional Plus under older Windows, you cannot input new ones in CSA Professional Plus running on Windows 7. The solution to these issues, arising out from technological changes in computing, is to (1) upgrade your CSA from Professional Plus to Expert or (2) retain an older Windows (up to XP) for running your CSA Professional Plus. Standard Country Names and Currency Codes used by Companies Registry Companies Registry has released the lists of standard country names and currency codes in their data specification for e-filing. In e-filing, you are required to select the standard country names for country/region of an address and for passport issuing country; and standard currency codes for capital shares. As informed by Companies Registry, these standard country names and currency codes are the actual data stored in their database. In paper filing, if you enter a country name or currency code which is different from their standards, they will try to map your entry with an appropriate standard name then save it to their database. For example, if you enter Britain for a passport issuing country, they will convert it into United Kingdom in their database. United Kingdom will be the data you find on the Electronic Search. This is also the case for Republic of China (or ROC ) vs. Taiwan. Electronic filing does not have such a problem because users have to choose an entry from their standard list. If you don t want to have any difference between the data you entered and the one stored in Company Registry s database, you are advised to follow their standard. We have attached the lists of standard country names and currency codes in Appendixes A and B for your reference. Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 1 of 7
Nominated Person in Form DR1 We have received a report from a CSA User that the Nominated Person stated in Part C of Form DR1 (Application for Deregistration of a Defunct Private Company) can also be a body corporate or a professional firm. According to sec.291aa of the Companies Ordinance, if the Applicant (Part B of DR1) is not an individual (i.e. the company itself, or a corporate director or a corporate member of the company), the Applicant must nominate a person to be given (i.e. to receive) notice of the deregistration (Part C of DR1). As clarified by an official of the Companies Registry, the person so nominated can also be a body corporate (i.e. a body corporate appoints another body corporate as Nominated Person to receive notice on its behalf). If this is the case, put Nil on the boxes for Identification (HKID and Passport), or just leave them blank. This is interesting, but we think the clarification is favorable to professional firms who act on behalf of their clients to manage matters of deregistration. We will revise the CSA Professional Plus as well as the CSA Expert to cope with this issue by removing the restriction of selecting only an Individual Entity as the Nominated Person. You can expect the updates for both versions in about three week s time. The CSA Technical Support Bulletin ( Bulletin ) is published by P & L Associates for all users of CSA: the Company Secretarial Software whose system is under warranty or annual maintenance. The Bulletin is published for providing practical advice on matters relating to the use of CSA and is primarily for reference only. The publisher shall not be liable in any event for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or rising out of the furnishing, performance, or use of any advice. All brands and products mentioned herein, if any, are trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright by P & L Associates. All rights reserved. Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 2 of 7
Appendix A List of Standard Country Names Country (Chinese) Country (Chinese) Afghanistan 阿富汗 Cambodia 柬埔寨 Aland Islands 奧蘭群島 Cameroon 喀麥隆 Albania 阿爾巴尼亞 Canada 加拿大 Algeria 阿爾及利亞 Cape Verde 佛得角 American Samoa 東薩摩亞 Cayman Islands 開曼群島 Andorra 安道爾 Central African Republic 中非共和國 Angola 安哥拉 Chad 乍得 Anguilla 安圭拉 Chile 智利 Antarctica 南極洲 China 中國 Antigua and Barbuda 安提瓜和巴布達 Christmas Island 聖誕島 Argentina 阿根廷 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 科科斯 ( 基靈 ) 群島 Armenia 亞美尼亞 Colombia 哥倫比亞 Aruba 阿魯巴 Comoros 科摩羅 Australia 澳洲 Congo 剛果 Austria 奧地利 Cook Islands 庫克群島 Azerbaijan 阿塞拜疆 Costa Rica 哥斯達黎加 Bahamas 巴哈馬 Cote D'Ivoire 科特迪瓦 Bahrain 巴林 Croatia 克羅地亞 Bangladesh 孟加拉國 Cuba 古巴 Barbados 巴巴多斯 Curacao 庫拉索島 Belarus 白俄羅斯 Cyprus 塞浦路斯 Belgium 比利時 Czech Republic 捷克共和國 Belize 伯利茲 Democratic People's 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國 Republic of Korea Benin 貝寧 Denmark 丹麥 Bermuda 百慕大 Djibouti 吉布提 Bhutan 不丹 Dominica 多米尼克 Bolivia 玻利維亞 Dominican Republic 多明尼加共和國 Bonaire 博奈爾 Ecuador 厄瓜多爾 Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞 Egypt 埃及 Botswana 博茨瓦納 El Salvador 薩爾瓦多 Bouvet Island 布維島 Equatorial Guinea 赤道畿內亞 Brazil 巴西 Eritrea 厄立特里亞 British Indian Ocean 英屬印度洋群島 Estonia 愛沙尼亞 Territory British Virgin Islands 英屬維爾京群島 Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亞 Brunei Darussalam 文萊 Falkland Islands 福克蘭群島 ( 馬爾維納斯 ) (Malvinas) Bulgaria 保加利亞 Faroe Islands 法羅群島 Burkina Faso 布基納法索 Federated States of 密克羅尼西亞羣島 Micronesia Burundi 布隆迪 Fiji 斐濟 Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 3 of 7
Country (Chinese) Country (Chinese) Finland 芬蘭 Kenya 肯尼亞 France 法國 Kiribati 基里巴斯共和國 French Guiana 法屬圭亞那 Kuwait 科威特 French Polynesia 法屬波利尼西亞 Kyrgyzstan 吉爾吉斯 French Southern 法屬南部領土 Lao People's Democratic 老撾人民民主共和國 Territories Republic Gabon 加蓬 Latvia 拉脫維亞 Gambia 岡比亞 Lebanon 黎巴嫩 Georgia 格魯吉亞 Lesotho 萊索托 Germany 德國 Liberia 利比里亞 Ghana 加納 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 阿拉伯利比亞共和國 Gibraltar 直布羅陀 Liechtenstein 列支敦士登 Greece 希臘 Lithuania 立陶苑 Greenland 格陵蘭 Luxembourg 盧森堡 Grenada 格林納達 Macau 澳門 Guadeloupe 瓜德羅普島 Macedonia 馬其頓 Guam 關島 Madagascar 馬達加斯加 Guatemala 危地馬拉 Malawi 馬拉維 Guernsey 格恩西島 Malaysia 馬來西亞 Guinea 畿內亞 Maldives 馬爾代夫 Guinea-Bissau 畿內亞比紹 Mali 馬里 Guyana 圭亞那 Malta 馬耳他 Haiti 海地 Marshall Islands 馬紹爾羣島 Heard Island and 赫德島及麥當奴島 Martinique 馬提尼克島 Mcdonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City 羅馬教廷 ( 梵蒂岡 ) Mauritania 毛里塔尼亞 State) Honduras 洪都拉斯 Mauritius 毛里求斯 Hong Kong 香港 Mayotte 馬約特島 Hungary 匈牙利 Mexico 墨西哥 Iceland 冰島 Monaco 摩納哥 India 印度 Mongolia 蒙古 Indonesia 印尼 Montenegro 黑山 Iraq 伊拉克 Montserrat 蒙特塞拉特島 Ireland 愛爾蘭 Morocco 摩洛哥 Islamic Republic of Iran 伊朗 Mozambique 莫桑比克 Isle of Man 馬恩島 Myanmar 緬甸 Israel 以色列 Namibia 納米比亞 Italy 意大利 Nauru 瑙魯 Jamaica 牙買加 Nepal 尼泊爾 Japan 日本 Netherlands 荷蘭 Jersey 澤西島 New Caledonia 新喀里多尼亞 Jordan 約旦 New Zealand 新西蘭 Kazakhstan 哈薩克 Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜 Kenya 肯尼亞 Niger 尼日爾 Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 4 of 7
Country (Chinese) Country (Chinese) Nigeria 尼日利亞 Sierra Leone 塞拉利昂 Niue 紐埃 Singapore 新加坡 Norfolk Island 諾福克島 Sint Maarten 荷屬聖馬丁 Northern Mariana Islands 北馬里亞納群島 Slovakia 斯洛伐克 Norway 挪威 Slovenia 斯洛文尼亞 Oman 阿曼 Solomon Islands 所羅門群島 Pakistan 巴基斯坦 Somalia 索馬里 Palau 帕勞群島 South Africa 南非 Palestinian Territory, Occupied 巴勒斯坦佔領區 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Panama 巴拿馬 Spain 西班牙 Papua New Guinea 巴布亞新幾內亞 Sri Lanka 斯里蘭卡 Paraguay 巴拉圭 Sudan 蘇丹 Peru 秘魯 Suriname 蘇里南 南喬治亞島及南桑威奇群島 Philippines 菲律賓 Svalbard and Jan Mayen 斯瓦爾巴特群島及揚馬延 島 Pitcairn 皮特克恩島 Swaziland 斯威士蘭 Poland 波蘭 Sweden 瑞典 Portugal 葡萄牙 Switzerland 瑞士 Puerto Rico 波多黎各 Syrian Arab Republic 敍利亞 Qatar 卡塔爾 Taiwan 台灣 Republic of Korea 韓國 Tajikistan 塔吉克 Republic of Moldova 摩爾多瓦 Thailand 泰國 Republic of South Sudan 南蘇丹共和國 Thailand 泰國 Reunion 留尼汪島 the Democratic Republic 剛果民主共和國 of the Congo Romania 羅馬尼亞 Timor-Leste 東帝汶 Russian Federation 俄羅斯 Togo 多哥 Rwanda 盧旺達 Tokelau 托克勞 Saint Barthelemy 聖巴泰勒米島 Tonga 湯加 Saint Helena 聖赫勒拿島 Trinidad and Tobago 特立尼達及多巴哥 Saint Kitts and Nevis 聖基茨及尼維斯 Tunisia 突尼斯 Saint Lucia 聖盧西亞 Turkey 土耳其 Saint Martin 法屬聖馬丁島 Turkmenistan 土庫曼 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 聖皮埃爾島及密克隆島 Turks and Caicos Islands 特克斯和凱科斯群島 Saint Vincent and the 聖雲仙及格蘭尼丁斯 Tuvalu 圖瓦盧 Grenadines Samoa 薩摩亞 U.S. Virgin Islands 美屬維爾京群島 San Marino 聖馬力諾 Uganda 烏干達 Sao Tome and Principe 聖多美及普林西比 Ukraine 烏克蘭 Saudi Arabia 沙特阿拉伯 United Arab Emirates 阿拉伯聯合酋長國 Senegal 塞內加爾 United Kingdom 英國 Serbia 塞爾維亞 United Republic of 坦桑尼亞 Tanzania Seychelles 塞舌爾 United States 美國 Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 5 of 7
Country (Chinese) Country (Chinese) United States Minor 美國偏遠小島 Western Sahara 西撒哈拉 Outlying Islands Uruguay 烏拉圭 Yemen 也門 Uzbekistan 烏茲別克 Zambia 贊比亞 Vanuatu 瓦努阿圖 Viet Nam 越南 Venezuela 委內瑞拉 Wallis and Futuna 瓦利斯和富圖納 Vietnam 越南 Yemen 也門 Wallis and Futuna 瓦利斯和富圖納 Zambia 贊比亞 Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 6 of 7
Appendix B List of Standard Currency Code Currency Code (Chinese) Currency Code (Chinese) AUD 澳洲元 NTD 新台幣 BND 汶萊元 NZD 紐西蘭元 CAD 加拿大元 PHP 菲律賓披索 CHF 瑞士法郎 PKR 巴基斯坦盧比 DKK 丹麥克朗 RMB 人民幣 EUR 歐羅 SEK 瑞典克朗 GBP 英鎊 SGD 新加坡元 HKD 港元 THB 泰國銖 INR 印度盧比 USD 美元 JPY 日元 WON 韓國寰 MYR 馬來西亞元 ZAR 南非蘭特 Ref: CSA_TSB_1204.doc / Page 7 of 7