STATUTORY COMPANIES (REDEEMABLE STOCK) ACT 1915

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STATUTORY COMPANIES (REDEEMABLE STOCK) ACT 1915 - SECT 1



1.(1) Where a statutory company as defined by this Act are authorised to raise
any preference or debenture stock, they may create and issue that stock so as
to be redeemable on such terms and conditions as may be specified in a
resolution of the company passed at a special meeting convened for the
purpose.

(2) If it is so provided in the resolution the statutory company may

(a)call in and pay off the stock or any part thereof at any time before the
fixed date of redemption; and

(b)redeem the stock or any part thereof, either by paying off the stock or by
issuing to any stockholder, subject to his consent, other stock in
substitution therefor; and may, for the purpose of providing money for paying
off the stock or of providing substituted stock, create and issue new stock
(either redeemable or irredeemable) or reissue stock originally created and
issued under this section, provided that the creation and issue for the
purpose of any particular class of stock does not make the total nominal
amount of that stock issued exceed the amount of that class of stock which the
company are for the time being authorised to create.

(3) The company may set aside out of revenue, after providing for the payment
of interest on any loan, or on any guaranteed, preference or debenture stock
of the company, and for other fixed charges and obligations, such sums as they
may consider proper for the purpose of forming a fund for the redemption at
maturity of any redeemable preference or debenture stock which, under the
conditions of the creation and issue of that stock, is to be redeemed wholly
or partly in cash; and the company may invest any sums so set apart, and the
income therefrom, in any securities in which trustees are for the time being
by law authorised to invest trust funds, or in any other securities (not being
securities of the company except as hereinafter provided) in which they may be
authorised to invest those sums by a resolution passed at a general meeting of
the company.

Any sums so set apart shall be applied for the redemption at maturity of any
redeemable preference or debenture stock for the redemption of which they have
been set apart, but may, if the directors of the company think fit, be also at
any time applied in the purchase of any such stock at a price not exceeding
the redemption price, and any stock so purchased shall be cancelled.

(4) A resolution of a statutory company, passed before the commencement of
this Act and after the outbreak of the war, for the creation or issue of
redeemable stock shall, for the purposes of this Act, have the same effect as
if this Act had been in operation at the time when the resolution was passed.

(5) This Act shall apply only to stock authorised to be created or to be
issued before the outbreak of the present war, or after the outbreak of the
present war, and before the commencement of this Act; and redeemable stock
shall not be created or issued, in pursuance of the powers given by this Act,
during the continuance of the present war and a period of twelve months
thereafter except with the consent of the Treasury.

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STATUTORY COMPANIES (REDEEMABLE STOCK) ACT 1915 - SECT 1