Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 1857

Banking Companies required to register under this Act.

IV. Every Banking Company consisting of Seven or more Persons, and formed under the Acts following, or either of them, that is to say,

(1.) An Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirteen, and intituled An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England,

(2.) An Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-five, and intituled An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in Scotland and Ireland, shall, on or before the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, register itself as a Company under this Act.