Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908

SIXTH SCHEDULE.

Part I.

Section 286 .

Enactments repealed.

Session and Chapter.

Short Title of Act.

Extent of Repeal.

25 & 26 Vict. c. 89.

The Companies Act, 1862

The whole Act.

27 Vict. c. 19.

The Companies Seals Act, 1864.

The whole Act.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 131.

The Companies Act, 1867

The whole Act.

32 & 33 Vict. c. 19.

The Stannaries Act, 1869

Sections twenty-five, twenty-six, and thirty-four.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 104.

The Joint Stock Companies Arrangement Act, 1870.

The whole Act.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 94.

Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874.

Section fifty-six.

38 & 39 Vict. c. 77.

The Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875.

Section ten, so far as relates to the winding up of companies.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 26.

The Companies Act, 1877

The whole Act.

40 & 41 Vict. c. 57.

The Supreme Court of Judicature (Ireland) Act, 1877.

Subsection (1) of section twenty-eight, so far as relates to the winding up of companies.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 76.

The Companies Act, 1879

The whole Act.

43 Vict. c. 19.

The Companies Act, 1880

The whole Act.

46 & 47 Vict. c. 30

The Companies (Colonial Registers) Act. 1883.

The whole Act.

49 Vict. c. 23.

The Companies Act. 1886

The whole Act.

50 & 51 Vict. c. 43.

The Stannaries Act, 1887

Sections nine and ten; section thirteen from “Upon the winding up” to the end of the section (being paragraph (2)); and section thirty-one.

50 & 51 Vict. c. 47.

The Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1887.

Section three.

51 & 52 Vict. c. 62.

The Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Act. 1888.

Sections one, two, and three, so far as they relate to companies.

52 & 53 Vict. c. 42.

The Revenue Act, 1889 -

Section eighteen.

52 & 53 Vict. c. 60.

The Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy (Ireland) Act, 1889.

Section four, so far as relates to companies.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 62

The Companies (Memorandum of Association) Act, 1890.

The whole Act.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 63.

The Companies (Winding up) Act, 1890.

The whole Act.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 64.

The Directors Liability Act, 1890.

The whole Act.

56 & 57 Vict. c. 58.

The Companies (Winding up) Act, 1893.

The whole Act.

60 & 61 Vict. c. 19.

The Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Amendment Act, 1897.

The whole Act.

61 & 62 Vict. c. 26.

The Companies Act. 1898

The whole Act.

63 & 64 Vict. c. 48.

The Companies Act. 1900

The whole Act.

7 Edw. 7. c. 24.

The Limited Partnerships Act, 1907.

Subsection (4) of section six.

7 Edw. 7. c. 50.

The Companies Act, 1907

The whole Act.

8 Edw. 7. c. 12.

The Companies Act, 1908

The whole Act.

Part II.

Section 286 .

An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England

(7 & 8 Vict. c. 113), s. 47.

Existing companies to have the powers of suing and being sued.

Every company of more than six persons established on the sixth day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers within the distance of sixty-five miles from London, and not within the provisions of the Act passed in the session of the seventh and eighth years of Queen Victoria, chapter one hundred and thirteen, intituled “An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England,” shall have the same powers and privileges of suing and being sued in the name of any one of the public officers of such co-partnership as the nominal plaintiff, petitioner, or defendant on behalf of such co-partnership; and all judgments, decrees, and orders made and obtained in any such suit may be enforced in like manner as is provided with respect to such companies carrying on the said trade or business at any place in England exceeding the distance of sixty-five miles from London under the provisions of the Country Bankers Act, 1826, provided that such first-mentioned company shall make out and deliver from time to time to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue the several accounts or returns required by the last-mentioned Act, and all the provisions of the last-recited Act as to such accounts or returns shall be taken to apply to the accounts or returns so made out and delivered by such first-mentioned companies as if they had been originally included in the provisions of the last-recited Act.

The Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 1857, Part of s. 12.

Power to form banking partnerships of ten persons.

Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act passed in the session holden in the seventh and eighth years of Queen Victoria, chapter one hundred and thirteen, and intituled “An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England,” or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for any number of persons, not exceeding ten, to carry on in partnership the business of banking, in the same manner and upon the same conditions in all respects as any company of not more than six persons could before the passing of the Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 1857, have carried on such business.