Version Superseded: 01/12/2003
Point in time view as at 27/06/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Companies Act 1985, Section 162.
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this Chapter, a company limited by shares or limited by guarantee and having a share capital may, if authorised to do so by its articles, purchase its own shares (including any redeemable shares).
(2)Sections 159 to 161 apply to the purchase by a company under this section of its own shares as they apply to the redemption of redeemable shares, save that the terms and manner of purchase need not be determined by the articles as required by section 160(3).
(3)A company may not under this section purchase its shares if as a result of the purchase there would no longer be any member of the company holding shares other than redeemable shares.
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