The Companies Registry (CR) will soon launch the next generation of Integrated Companies Registry Information System (Revamped ICRIS). The Revamped ICRIS aims to improve customers’ experience through a one-stop online integrated portal for all sorts of interactions with the CR. The Revamped ICRIS will cover company searches, as well as document delivery and registration under various Ordinances including those applicable to open-ended fund companies (OFCs) and limited partnership funds (LPFs).
Effective from 27 December 2023, upon the launch of the Revamped ICRIS, OFCs and LPFs should utilise the new e-Services Portal (www.e-services.cr.gov.hk) for all electronic document submissions and registrations. Similar to the current e-filing arrangement, documents to be delivered to the CR for registration under the Securities and Futures (Open-ended Fund Companies) Rules (Chapter 571AQ) and the Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (Chapter 637) must be in the prescribed electronic or PDF templates, or in PDF files.
Electronically submitted documents must be authenticated, approved or certified electronically by specified persons. For such purposes, the digital signature, or the password of the user account registered with the e-Services Portal, of such person must be affixed to or included in the document.
CR’s current e-Registry portal will then be superseded.
