Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (repealed)

Type Public General Act
Publication 1985-03-11
State In force
Department Statute Law Database
Reform history JSON API

Old public companies

Meaning of " old public company "

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Re-registration as public company

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Conditions for re-registering under s. 2

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Old public company becoming private

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Failure by old public company to obtain new classification

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Shares of old public company held by itself; charges on own shares

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Offers of shares and debentures by old public company

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Trading under misleading name

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Payment for share capital

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Miscellaneous savings

Pre-1901 companies limited by guarantee

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Company official seal

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Share premiums: retrospective relief

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Saving, in case of re-issued debentures, of rights of certain mortgagees

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Removal of directors appointed for life pre-1945

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Tax-free payments to directors

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Statutory declaration of solvency in voluntary winding up

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Court's power to control proceedings

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Effect of floating charge in winding up

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Saving from s. 649 of principal Act

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Continued application of certain provisions of 1963 c. 16

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Priority of old debts in winding up

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Saving as to certain old liquidations

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Restrictions on shares imposed pre-1982

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Saving for conversion of winding up under 1981 s. 107

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Miscellaneous amendments

Security of information obtained for official purposes; privilege from disclosure

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Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1967

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Amendment of Table A

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Repeal of obsolete provisions

Stannaries and cost-book companies

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Repeals, et ceteralaetc. consequential on Companies Acts consolidation; continuity of law

Repeals

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Amendment of post-1948 statutes

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Continuity of law

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General

Interpretation

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Northern Ireland

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Commencement

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Citation

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SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Meaning of “old public company”.

Editorial notes

[^key-83fa438e77579c080e4633623343537b]: Act repealed (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 2 (with art. 5, Sch. 1 and with saving in S.S.I. 2011/215, art. 2, Sch. 7)

[^key-c64cc3ea09e81ae471f9058338c3f637]: Act modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

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