Companies Act, 1862

Compulsory registration of certain companies.

7 & 8 Vict. c. 110.

209. Every insurance company completely registered under the Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and ten, intituled “An Act for the “registration, incorporation, and regulation of joint stock “companies,” shall on or before the second day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and every other company required by any Act hereby repealed to register under the said Joint Stock Companies Acts, or one of such Acts, and which has not so registered, shall, on or before the expiration of the thirty-first day from the commencement of this Act, register itself as a company under this Act, in manner and subject to the regulations herein-before contained, with this exception, that no company completely registered under the said Act of the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty shall be required to deliver to the registrar a copy of its deed of settlement; and for the purpose of enabling such insurance companies as are mentioned in this section to register under this Act, this Act shall be deemed to come into operation immediately on the passing thereof; nevertheless the registration of such companies shall not have any effect until the time of the commencement of this Act. No fees shall be charged in respect of the registration of any company required to register by this section.