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Companies Act 1967 (repealed)

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Contents: 58 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  3. 58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  4. 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  5. 60 Restriction of carrying on insurance business.
  6. 61 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7. 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  8. 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  9. 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  10. 67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  11. 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  12. 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  13. 70
  14. 71
  15. 72
  16. 73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  17. 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  18. 75
  19. 76
  20. 77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  21. 78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  22. 79
  23. 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  24. 81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  25. 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  26. 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  27. 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  28. 85
  29. 86 Penalty on industrial assurance company for noncompliance with enactments relating to industrial assurance.
  30. 87 Penalty on friendly society for offence under Industrial Assurance Act 1923.
  31. 88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  32. 89 Criminal liability of directors, etc.
  33. 90 Summary proceedings.
  34. 91 Restriction of institution of proceedings in respect of offences under Part II.
  35. 92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  36. 96 Power of Industrial Assurance Commissioner to exempt Northern Irish collecting societies from provisions of Industrial Assurance Acts 1923 to 1958.
  37. 97 Construction (as to Northern Ireland) of certain references.
  38. 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  39. 99 Amendments (of minor nature or consequential on Part II) of the principal Act and the Industrial Assurance Act 1923.
  40. 100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  41. 102 Interpretation of Part II.
  42. 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  43. 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  44. 105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  45. 107 Northern Ireland.
  46. 108 The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
  47. 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  48. 119 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  49. 123 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  50. 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  51. SCHEDULE 1 . . .
  52. Schedule 2 . . .
  53. SCHEDULE 3 . . .
  54. SCHEDULE 4 . . .
  55. SCHEDULE 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  56. SCHEDULE 6 . . .
  57. SCHEDULE 7 . . .
  58. SCHEDULE 8 . . .

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58 provisions

102 Interpretation of Part II.

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) In this Part of this Act, . . . “director” includes any person occupying the position of director, by whatever name called. (3) A person shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of any provision of this Part of this Act a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company or other body corporate or any of them are accustomed to act by reason only that the directors of the body act on advice given by him in a professional capacity. (4) References in this Part of this Act to a body corporate shall be construed as not including a corporation sole or a Scottish firm but as including a body incorporated outside Great Britain.

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107 Northern Ireland.

This Part of this Act, and Schedules 5 and 6 thereto, shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

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108 The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

(1) The provisions of this Act specified in subsection (3) below shall extend to the Isle of Man subject to such of the modifications specified in section 103 of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 as are relevant in the circumstances; and, notwithstanding anything in section 11 of the Petty Sessions and Summary Jurisdiction Act 1927 (an Act of Tynwald), a complaint relating to an offence under section 60 or 86 of this Act which is triable by a court of summary jurisdiction in the Isle of Man may be so tried if it is made at any time within three years after the commission of the offence and within twelve months after the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the Attorney General of the Isle of Man to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge, and for this purpose a certificate of the said Attorney General as to the date on which such evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence. (2) The provisions of this Act specified in the following subsection shall extend to the Bailiwick of Jersey subject to such of the modifications specified in section 104(1) of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 as are relevant in the circumstances and to the Bailiwick of Guernsey subject to such of the modifications specified in section 104(2) of that Act as are so relevant. (3) The provisions of this Act referred to in subsections (1) and (2) above are the following, namely,— (a) subsection (3) of section 60 and subsection (4) thereof so far as it relates to carrying on business in contravention of the first-mentioned subsection; (b) sections 86 and 87; (c) section 89, so far as it relates to offences under subsection (4) of section 60 consisting in carrying on business in contravention of subsection (3) thereof and offences under section 86; (d) section 90, so far as it applies section 49(2) to offences specified in the last foregoing paragraph; (e) section 96. so far as it relates to the Industrial Assurance Act 1923; (f) section 97; (g) section 99 and Schedule 6, so far as they relate to the Industrial Assurance Act 1923; (h) section 100; (i) section 102(2), so far as it defines “registered society” and “director”, and section 102(3).

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126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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SCHEDULE 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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