Statutory Registry Legal Disclaimer

86hc.com is an independent commercial intelligence, registry indexing, and enterprise due diligence consulting portal owned and operated exclusively by HC BUSINESS LIMITED (BRN: 66820292, TCSP License: TC006431). 86hc.com is NOT an official agency, department, statutory corporation, or public authority of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), nor are we affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Hong Kong Companies Registry (CR) or the Inland Revenue Department (IRD). All corporate data, registry documents, and statutory records presented are lawfully aggregated and indexed from official public statutory registers and verified data pipelines.

Corporate filings, directorship networks, licensing credentials, and judicial records displayed on 86hc.com are systematically sourced from official public statutory registers maintained under HKSAR enactments, including:

1. Companies Registry of HKSAR (CR): Statutory corporate registers and gazetted document dossiers preserved pursuant to the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622);
2. Business Registration Office (BRO / IRD): Public business registration records published under the Business Registration Ordinance (Cap. 310);
3. Hong Kong Judiciary: Lawfully published civil cause books, commercial court judgments, writ registers, and hearing schedules;
4. Official Receiver's Office (ORO): Official gazetted registers of compulsory corporate winding-up petitions and individual bankruptcy orders;
5. 32 Statutory Regulatory Authorities: Licensing registers maintained by the HKMA, SFC, Customs and Excise Department (MSO licensees), Insurance Authority (IA), Estate Agents Authority, and Hong Kong Law Society;
6. The Government of the HKSAR Gazette: Statutory legal notices, strike-off announcements, and dissolution proclamations;
7. United Nations & International Sanctions Lists: Official AML/CFT sanctions screening databases.

Corporate intelligence presented on 86hc.com is mirrored objectively from statutory registers. Users acknowledge and agree to the following inherent constraints:

• Official Registry Clerical Errors: Inaccuracies, typographical errors, misspelling of director names, or discrepancies originating from physical statutory forms (e.g. historical Form NAR1 / NNC1) submitted by company promoters or official registry staff are inherent to government archives. The Platform provides neutral indexing and makes no warranty regarding the absolute perfection of public records;
• Microfilm & Historical Scanning Quality: Historical filings lodged prior to electronic filing eras were microfilmed by the Companies Registry. Inherent scanning artifacts, faint ink, or watermarks on historical microfiches reflect official archival reality;
• Natural Person Homonym & Masked-ID Clustering Disclaimer: Under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) New Inspection Regime, natural person identification numbers are partially masked (e.g. A123***(X)), and Hong Kong Judiciary cause books frequently record litigant names without identification numbers. Cross-company directorship indices or litigation cross-references generated by the Platform reflect objective name and masked-identifier string matches only, and DO NOT constitute a warranty that two records sharing identical English/Chinese names or identical masked prefixes belong to the same biological individual;
• Procedural Nature of Judicial Dockets & Rehabilitation of Offenders (Cap. 297): Civil writs of summons (Writs of Summons), cause book entries, and winding-up petitions indexed from the Hong Kong Judiciary or Official Receiver's Office indicate solely that a procedural filing was lodged at a specific historical point in time. Listing as a "Defendant" or "Respondent" does NOT imply that the entity or individual has been adjudicated liable, in breach of contract, fraudulent, or insolvent; proceedings may subsequently be withdrawn, dismissed, or settled out of court. Furthermore, in strict compliance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Ordinance (Cap. 297), 86hc.com never indexes spent convictions of natural persons;
• Registry Update Time-Lags: While 86hc.com synchronizes official updates rapidly, statutory filing processing cycles, gazettal notices, and registry maintenance intervals may create brief synchronization latency. For high-stakes, irrevocable corporate mergers or judicial filings, users are advised to conduct real-time verification directly with the relevant registry departments.

The commercial due diligence reports, corporate intelligence summaries, and shareholding relationship graphs generated by 86hc.com represent objective data aggregations intended solely for risk management reference, background screening, and transaction intelligence. They DO NOT constitute formal legal opinions (Legal Opinions), financial audit reports (Audit Reports), or professional investment ratings.

Where documents are required for formal court proceedings, judicial evidence, regulatory investigations, or commercial bank account opening interviews, clients are advised to coordinate through our platform to obtain a Certified True Copy (CTC) independently examined, signed, and stamped by a practicing Hong Kong Certified Public Accountant (HKICPA) or practicing Hong Kong Solicitor.

86hc.com strictly enforces a Zero Synthetic / Deductive Data Policy:

• No Fabricated Dossiers: We strictly refrain from algorithmically generating fictitious filings (such as inventing NAR1 or ND2A filings) for companies that failed to lodge statutory returns or were struck off decades ago;
• Empty Barcode Protection: All downloadable filings must possess an authentic official ICRIS barcode and receipt stamp. If a historical entity was dissolved or struck off without digitized archives, the Platform honestly reflects the non-existence of documents rather than presenting synthetic data. Orders that cannot be fulfilled due to missing official records are 100% refunded under our 24-hour SLA.

All advisory materials, document checklists, and consulting guidance regarding Hong Kong commercial bank account opening (e.g. HSBC, OCBC, BOCHK, Standard Chartered, etc.) or corporate secretarial alterations are provided strictly for procedural guidance. HC BUSINESS LIMITED does not guarantee 100% approval of any bank account or government license.

Commercial banks and government regulators maintain absolute independent statutory discretion over underwriting policies, risk scoring, customer due diligence, and account onboarding. Decisions made by banks or regulatory authorities are sovereign and beyond the platform's legal control.

Third-Party Bank Trademarks Nominative Fair Use & External Hyperlinks: All bank names, logos, and product marks referenced on this Platform belong to their respective licensed banking proprietors and are cited solely under Nominative Fair Use pursuant to Section 19 of the Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap. 559) to describe official bank document requirements and published tariff schedules. External hyperlinks to government registries or third-party corporate websites are provided for reference convenience only, and HC BUSINESS LIMITED bears no responsibility for external site security or content accuracy.

To maintain absolute commercial neutrality and objectivity, 86hc.com strictly adheres to the "Three Prohibitions":

• ❌ No Speculative Money-Laundering Radars: We strictly refrain from deploying algorithmic "black-box risk radars" or fabricating subjective "high-risk money-laundering scores";
• ❌ No Subjective Credit Star Ratings: In the absence of statutory credit rating licenses, we never assign arbitrary "3-star / 5-star" commercial credit grades to enterprises;
• ❌ No Disclosure of Non-Public Business Secrets: We never publish unauthorized internal financial accounts, proprietary trade secrets, or unverified commercial rumors.

Automated Pre-check & Utility Tools Disclaimer: Interactive utilities provided on the Platform—including the HK Company Name Generator & Availability Check (/name-tool), Registered Office Address Formatting Tool (/address-tool), and automated industry/naming cluster classifications—operate as rule-based algorithmic pre-checks referencing the Companies Registry's Guideline on Registration of Company Names for Hong Kong Companies. Such automated outputs are provided for preliminary reference only and DO NOT constitute formal name reservation or Final Approval by the Registrar of Companies under Section 100 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622).

86hc.com provides corporate intelligence strictly for legitimate statutory purposes. HC BUSINESS LIMITED accepts NO liability whatsoever for any misuse, unauthorized redistribution, harassment, commercial extortion, or violation of Section 64 of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) committed by users. The user shall bear sole and exclusive legal, civil, and criminal liability for any improper use of data obtained from this Platform.

Neither party shall be held liable for failure to perform or service degradation resulting from events of Force Majeure, including government registry system overhauls, statutory amendments, international undersea cable disruptions, catastrophic cyberattacks, severe pandemics, or telecommunications backbone outages.

To the maximum extent permissible under Hong Kong law, any aggregate financial liability of HC BUSINESS LIMITED arising out of data presentation shall be strictly capped at the actual processing fee paid by the user for the relevant transaction.

If you identify any discrepancy, recent statutory change (such as an updated Form ND2A or registered office address Form NR1), or typographical error in official records displayed on our platform, you are encouraged to submit a verification request through our dedicated Data Objection & Correction Portal. Upon rapid documentary authentication, our compliance division will refresh and update the profile across our platform free of charge within 24 hours.