Introductory Text
Old public companies
1. Meaning of “old public company”.
2. Re-registration as public company.
3. Conditions for re-registering under s. 2.
4. Old public company becoming private.
5. Failure by old public company to obtain new classification.
6. Shares of old public company held by itself; charges on own shares.
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8. Trading under misleading name.
9. Payment for share capital.
Miscellaneous savings
10. Pre-1901 companies limited by guarantee.
11. Company official seal.
12. Share premiums: retrospective relief.
13. Saving, in case of re-issued debentures, of rights of certain mortgagees.
14. Removal of directors appointed for life pre-1945.
15. Tax-free payments to directors.
16. Statutory declaration of solvency in voluntary winding up.
17. Court’s power to control proceedings.
18. Effect of floating charge in winding up.
19. Saving from s. 649 of principal Act.
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21. Priority of old debts in winding up.
22. Saving as to certain old liquidations.
23. Restrictions on shares imposed pre-1982.
24. Saving for conversion of winding up under 1981 s. 107.
Miscellaneous amendments
25. Security of information obtained for official purposes; privilege from disclosure.
26. Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1967.
27. Amendment of Table A.
Repeal of obsolete provisions
28. Stannaries and cost-book companies.
Repeals, et ceteralaetc. consequential on Companies Acts consolidation; continuity of law
29. Repeals.
30. Amendment of post-1948 statutes.
31. Continuity of law.
General
32. Interpretation.
33. Northern Ireland.
34. Commencement.
35. Citation.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Enactments Repealed
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SCHEDULE 2
Amendments of Enactments Consequential on Consolidation of Companies Acts