梦海专业 | 在香港全英文的文件怎么签才有效？关于香港法律文件签名、钢印、大章、小章的分别 | 前海涉港律师-梦海

根据《公司条例》（第622章），自2014年3月3日起，公司不再强制备存或使用法团印章（俗称"钢印"或"大章"）。公司可以选择有印章，也可以选择没有。签立文件有以下两种方式：

1. A company may have a common seal.

2. A company’s common seal must be a metallic seal having the company’s name engraved on it in compliance with subsection (2A) in legible form. (Amended 35 of 2018 s. 10)

3. A company’s common seal must be engraved with—

4. if the company has both an English name and a Chinese name—the English name or the Chinese name or both; or

5. if the company has only an English name or a Chinese name—the English name or the Chinese name. (Added 35 of 2018 s. 10)

6. If subsection (2) is contravened, the company, and every responsible person of the company, commit an offence, and each is liable to a fine at level 3.

7. If an officer of a company or a person on behalf of a company uses, or authorizes the use of, a seal that purports to be the company’s common seal and that contravenes subsection (2), the officer or person commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3.

1. A company may execute a document under its common seal.

2. If a company executes a document under its common seal, the seal must be affixed in accordance with the provisions of its articles.

3. A company may also execute a document—

4. in the case of a company with only one director, by having it signed by the director on the company’s behalf; or

5. in the case of a company with 2 or more directors, by having it signed on the company’s behalf by—

6. the 2 directors or any 2 of the directors; or

7. any of the directors and the company secretary of the company.

8. For the purposes of subsection (3), if a person is to sign a document on behalf of 2 or more companies, the person must sign the document separately in each capacity.

9. A document signed in accordance with subsection (3) and expressed (in whatever words) to be executed by the company has effect as if the document had been executed under the company’s common seal.

10. In favour of a person specified in subsection (7), a document is to be regarded as having been executed by a company if the document purports to have been signed in accordance with subsection (3).

11. The person is a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration and includes—

12. a lessee;

13. a mortgagee; or

14. any other person who for valuable consideration acquires the property.

15. This section also applies to a document that is executed, or purports to be executed, by a company in the name of or on behalf of another person whether or not that other person is also a company.