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121 Alteration of share capital (limited companies).E+W+S

(1)A company limited by shares or a company limited by guarantee and having a share capital, if so authorised by its articles, may alter the conditions of its memorandum in any of the following ways.

(2)The company may—

(a)increase its share capital by new shares of such amount as it thinks expedient;

(b)consolidate and divide all or any of its share capital into shares of larger amount than its existing shares;

(c)convert all or any of its paid-up shares into stock, and re-convert that stock into paid-up shares of any denomination;

(d)sub-divide its shares, or any of them, into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the memorandum (but subject to the following subsection);

(e)cancel shares which, at the date of the passing of the resolution to cancel them, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, and diminish the amount of the company’s share capital by the amount of the shares so cancelled.

(3)In any sub-division under subsection (2)(d) the proportion between the amount paid and the amount, if any, unpaid on each reduced share must be the same as it was in the case of the share from which the reduced share is derived.

(4)The powers conferred by this section must be exercised by the company in general meeting.

(5)A cancellation of shares under this section does not for purposes of this Act constitute a reduction of share capital.

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