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The Overseas Companies (Execution of Documents and Registration of Charges) Regulations 2009
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- 2009 No. 1917
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- Regulation 6
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6. Section 51 of the Companies Act 2006 applies to overseas companies, modified so that it reads as follows—
“Pre-incorporation contracts, deeds and obligations
51.—(1) A contract that purports to be made by or on behalf of an overseas company at a time when the company has not been formed has effect, subject to any agreement to the contrary, as one made with the person purporting to act for the company or as agent for it, and he is personally liable on the contract accordingly.
(2) Subsection (1) applies—
(a)to the making of a deed under the law of England and Wales or Northern Ireland, and
(b)to the undertaking of an obligation under the law of Scotland,
as it applies to the making of a contract.”.
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