The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011

3.  In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) —

(a) omit the definition of “the 1985 Act” and insert in the appropriate place—

““the 1989 Order” means the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(1);

“the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;”;

(b) in the definition of “the appropriate registrar”, after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) the registrar of companies for Northern Ireland if the company’s instrument of incorporation states that its head office is to be situated in Northern Ireland;”;

(c) in the definition of “court”, in paragraph (a) after “England and Wales” insert “or Northern Ireland”;

(d) for the definition of “open-ended investment company” substitute—

““open-ended investment company” means—

(a)

a body incorporated by virtue of regulation 3(1), or

(b)

a body treated as so incorporated by virtue of—

(i)

regulation 85(3)(a) (bodies incorporated under earlier British regulations), or

(ii)

Schedule 3 to the Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (transitional provisions: Northern Ireland open-ended investment companies);”.

(1)

S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I.19)