BAILII [Home] [Databases] [World Law] [Search] [Feedback]

Northern Irish Legislation

You are here:  BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]


COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 356

Saving for enactments providing for winding up under former Companies Acts.

356.(1) Companies incorporated outside Northern Ireland which, after the
commencement of this Act, establish a place of business within Northern
Ireland shall, within one month of the establishment of the place of business,
deliver to the registrar of companies for registration:

(a)a certified copy of the charter, statutes or memorandum and articles of
the company or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of
the company, and, if the instrument is not written in the English language, a
certified translation thereof;

(b)a list [in the prescribed form] of the directors and secretary of
the company containing the particulars mentioned in sub-section (2);

(c)[a list in the prescribed form of] the names and addresses of some one or
more persons resident in Northern Ireland authorised to accept on behalf of
the company service of process and any notices required to be served on
the company;

[(d)a list in the prescribed form of the documents mentioned in paragraphs (a)
to (c).]

(2) Subject to sub-section (3), the list referred to in paragraph (b) of
sub-section (1) shall contain the following particulars

(a)with respect to each director

(i)in the case of an individual, his present Christian name and surname and
any former Christian name or surname, his usual residential address, his
nationality and his business occupation, if any, or if he has no business
occupation but holds any other directorship or directorships, particulars of
that directorship or of some one of those directorships; and

(ii)in the case of a body corporate, its corporate name and registered or
principal office;

(b)with respect to the secretary or, where there are joint secretaries, with
respect to each of them

(i)in the case of an individual, his present Christian name and surname, any
former Christian name or surname and his usual residential address; and

(ii)in the case of a body corporate or a Scottish firm, its corporate or firm
name and registered or principal office.

Paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of sub-section (12) of section one hundred and
ninety-one shall apply for the purpose of the construction of references in
this sub-section to present and former Christian names and surnames as they
apply for the purpose of the construction of such references in that section.

(3) Where all the partners in a firm are joint secretaries of the company, the
name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the particulars
mentioned in paragraph (b) of sub-section (2).

(4) Companies to which this Part applies, other than those mentioned in
sub-section (1), shall, if at the commencement of this Act they have not
delivered to the registrar the documents and particulars specified in
sub-section (1) of section two hundred and ninety-nine of the Companies Act
(Northern Ireland), 1932, continue subject to the obligation to deliver those
documents and particulars in accordance with that Act.

S.357 rep. by 1960 c.20 (NI) s.1(1) sch.


[Index] [Table] [Search] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

© 1960 Crown Copyright

BAILII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback
URL: http://www.bailii.org/nie/legis/num_act/cai1960267/s356.html