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(1)The provisions of this Act specified in the first column of Schedule 22 (relating respectively to the matters specified in the second column of the Schedule) apply to all bodies corporate incorporated in and having a principal place of business in Great Britain, other than those mentioned in subsection (2) below, as if they were companies registered under this Act, but subject to any limitations mentioned in relation to those provisions respectively in the third column and to such adaptations and modifications (if any) as may be specified by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(2)Those provisions of this Act do not apply by virtue of this section to any of the following—
(a)any body incorporated by or registered under any public general Act of Parliament,
(b)any body not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business which has for its object the acquisition of gain by the body or its individual members,
(c)any body for the time being exempted by direction of the Secretary of State (or before him by the Board of Trade).
[F1(d)any open-ended investment company within the meaning of the Open-Ended Investment Companies Regulations 2001.]
(3)Where against any provision of this Act specified in the first column of Schedule 22 there appears in the third column the entry “Subject to section 718(3)”, it means that the provision is to apply by virtue of this section so far only as may be specified by regulations made by the Secretary of State and to such bodies corporate as may be so specified.
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(5)This section does not repeal or revoke in whole or in part any enactment, royal charter or other instrument constituting or regulating any body in relation to which those provisions are applied by virtue of this section, or restrict the power of Her Majesty to grant a charter in lieu of or supplementary to any such charter as above mentioned; but, in relation to any such body, the operation of any such enactment, charter or instrument is suspended in so far as it is inconsistent with any of those provisions as they apply for the time being to that body.
(6)The power to make regulations conferred by this section (whether regulations under subsection (1) or subsection (3)) is exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 718(2)(d) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/1228, regs. 1(2), 84, Sch. 7 para. 8 (with reg. 1(2)(3)); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
F2S. 718(4) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), s. 1(1), {Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 5}
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 718(2) extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1989/638, regs. 18, 21, Sch. 4 para. 20
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