Joint Stock Companies Act 1856

Stamp of Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association and Use of printed Copies.

XI. The Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association shall respectively bear the same Stamps as if they were Deeds: Any Person signing a printed Copy of the Memorandum of Association or Articles of Association shall be deemed to have signed such Memorandum and Articles respectively, and where the proper Stamp has been duly fixed on such Memorandum of Association or Articles of Association it shall not be necessary to stamp any printed Copy so signed: The Execution by any Person of the Memorandum of Association or Articles of Association shall be attested by One Witness at the least; and Attestation by One Witness shall be sufficient Attestation in Scotland as well as in England and Ireland.