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Application of Act to companies formed under Joint Stock Companies Acts.
19 & 20 Vict. c. 47.
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176. Subject as herein-after mentioned, this Act, with the exception of table A. in the first schedule, shall apply to companies formed and registered under the said Joint Stock Companies Acts, or any of them, in the same manner in the case of a limited company as if such company had been formed and registered under this Act as a company limited by shares, and in the case of a company other than a limited company as if such company had been formed and registered as an unlimited company under this Act, with this qualification, that wherever reference is made expressly or impliedly to the date of registration, such date shall be deemed to refer to the date at which such companies were respectively registered under the said Joint Stock Companies Acts or any of them; and the power of altering regulations by special resolution given by this Act shall, in the case of any company formed and registered under the said Joint Stock Companies Acts or any of them, extend to altering any provisions contained in the table marked B. annexed to the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, and shall also in the case of an unlimited company formed and registered as last aforesaid extend to altering any regulations relating to the amount of capital or its distribution into shares, notwithstanding such regulations are contained in the memorandum of association.
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