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COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 383

383.(1) The provisions of [this Act] specified in the second column of the
Tenth Schedule (which respectively relate to the matters referred to in the
first column of that Schedule) shall apply to all bodies corporate
incorporated in and having a principal place of business in Northern Ireland,
other than those mentioned in sub-section (2), as if they were companies
registered under this Act, but subject to any limitations mentioned in
relation to those provisions respectively in the third column of that Schedule
and to such adaptations and modifications, if any, as may be specified by
regulations made by the Ministry.

[(1A) The modifications of Articles 123 and 124 of the Companies (Northern
Ireland) Order 1978 that may be made by regulations under sub-section (1)
shall include the extension of those Articles to additional matters (and in
particular to the instruments constituting or regulating a company as well as
to alterations thereof).]

(2) The said provisions shall not apply by virtue of this section to any of
the following bodies:

(a)any body incorporated by or registered under any public general Act of
Parliament; and

(b)any body not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business which has for
its object the acquisition of gain by the body or by the individual members
thereof; and

(c)any body for the time being exempted by direction of the Ministry.

(3) The said provisions shall apply also in like manner in relation to any
unincorporated body of persons entitled by virtue of letters patent to any of
the privileges conferred by the Chartered Companies Act, 1837, and not
registered under any other public general Act of Parliament, but subject to
the like exceptions as are provided for in the case of bodies corporate by
paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (2).

(4) This section shall not repeal or revoke in whole or in part any enactment,
royal charter or other instrument constituting or regulating any body in
relation to which the said provisions are applied by virtue of this section,
or restrict the power of Her Majesty to grant a charter in lieu of or
supplementary to any such charter as aforesaid; but, in relation to any such
body, the operation of any such enactment, charter or instrument shall be
suspended in so far as it is inconsistent with any of the said provisions as
they apply for the time being to that body.

(5) Regulations made under this section and the Tenth Schedule shall be
subject to negative resolution.

Application of certain provisions of this Act to unregistered companies.

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