Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Companies Act 1985, Paragraph 3.
3(1)A competent court in a country or territory where an overseas branch register is kept may exercise the same jurisdiction of rectifying the register as is under this Act exercisable by the court in Great Britain; and the offences of refusing inspection or copies of the register, and of authorising or permitting the refusal, may be prosecuted summarily before any tribunal having summary criminal jurisdiction.
(2)This paragraph extends only to those countries and territories where, immediately before the coming into force of this Act, provision to the same effect made by section 120(2) of the M1Companies Act 1948 had effect as part of the local law.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 14 paras. 2(2), 3(1) modified by S.I. 1985/724, reg. 6(3)
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