Companies Act 2014
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Act structured to facilitate its use in relation to most common type of company | ||
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9. (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), all of the law in this Act in relation to private companies limited by shares is to be found in Parts 1 to 14 (or instruments under them) and Schedules 1 to 6 . | ||
(2) Subject to subsection (3), all of the law in this Act in relation to other types of company is to be found amongst the provisions of— | ||
(a) Parts 16 to 25 (or instruments under them) and Schedules 7 to 17 ; and | ||
(b) Parts 1 to 14 (or instruments under them) and Schedules 1 to 6 as applied or adapted by Parts 16 to 25 . | ||
(3) Part 15 (Functions of Registrar and of regulatory and advisory bodies) applies to both— | ||
(a) private companies limited by shares; and | ||
(b) other types of company, | ||
as well as to certain undertakings to which the European Communities (Accounts) Regulations 1993 ( S.I. No. 396 of 1993 ), as amended, apply. | ||
(4) Exceptionally, provisions either— | ||
(a) of a miscellaneous nature arising out of the relationship between a private company limited by shares and another company type (such as provisions for re-registration); or | ||
(b) which it would not otherwise be practicable to include in Parts 1 to 14 (such as provisions for a merger between a public limited company and a private company limited by shares), will be found in Parts 16 to 25 . | ||
(5) References in Chapter 6 of Part 2 , however expressed, to this Part and Parts 2 to 15 having application to a private company limited by shares shall not be read as excluding the application to such a company of provisions of the kind mentioned in subsection (4). |