Joint Stock Companies Act, 1857

Register of Shareholders (Part I. of Principal Act).

Power of Limited Company to convert paid-up Shares into Stock.

V. Any Limited Company may by special Resolution convert into Stock any Shares which have been fully paid up; and upon such Conversion being made all the Provisions of the Principal Act or of this Act which require or imply that the Capital of the Company is divided into Shares of any fixed Amount, and distinguished by Numbers, and all the Provisions of the Principal Act that require the Company to keep a Register of Shareholders, or to make an annual List of Shareholders in the Register, shall cease as to so much of the Capital as has been so converted into Stock.