Chapter:	32	Title:	COMPANIES ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	19	Heading:	Unlimited companies may be re-registered as limited	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) A company which, at or after the commencement* of the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 1984 (6 of 1984), is registered as unlimited may be re-registered as limited if a special resolution that it should be so re-registered (complying with the requirement of subsection (2)) is passed and an application in that behalf, framed in the specified form and signed by a director or by the secretary of the company, is lodged with the Registrar together with the documents mentioned in subsection (3) not earlier than the day on which the copy of the resolution forwarded to him in pursuance of section 117 is received by him; and the Eighth Schedule shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if for references in that Schedule to the registration of a company there were substituted references to its re-registration under this section. (Amended 3 of 1997 s. 7)
(2) The said requirement is that the resolution-

(a) shall state the manner in which the liability of the members of the company is to be limited and, if the company is to have a share capital, what that capital is to be; and
(b) shall-
(i) if the company is to be limited by guarantee, provide for the making of such alterations in its memorandum and such alterations in and additions to its articles as are requisite to bring the memorandum and articles, both in substance and in form, into conformity with the requirements of this Ordinance with respect to the substance and form of the memorandum and articles of a company to be formed thereunder whose condition as to mode of limitation of liability and possession of a share capital (or want of it) will be similar to the condition of the company as to those matters which will obtain upon its re-registration;
(ii) if the company is to be limited by shares, provide for the making of such alterations in its memorandum as are requisite to bring it, both in substance and in form, into conformity with the requirements of this Ordinance with respect to the substance and form of the memorandum of a company to be formed thereunder as a company so limited, and such alterations in and additions to its articles as are requisite in the circumstances.

(a) the status of the company shall, by virtue of the issue, be changed from unlimited to limited; and
(b) the alterations in the memorandum specified in the resolution and the alterations in, and additions to, the articles so specified shall, notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, take effect.

(a) notwithstanding section 170(1)(a), a past member of the company who was a member thereof at the time of re-registration shall, if the winding up commences within the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the company is re-registered, be liable to contribute to the assets of the company in respect of debts and liabilities of its contracted before that time;
(b) where no persons who were members of the company at that time are existing members of the company, a person who, at that time, was a present or past member thereof shall, subject to section 170(1)(a) and paragraph (a) of this subsection, but notwithstanding section 170(1)(c), be liable to contribute as aforesaid notwithstanding that the existing members have satisfied the contributions required to be made by them in pursuance of this Ordinance;
(c) notwithstanding section 170(1)(d) and (e), there shall be no limit on the amount which a person who, at that time, was a past or present member of the company is liable to contribute as aforesaid.