PART IV. Registration Office. CVI. The registration of companies shall be Constitution conducted as follows (that is to say) : (1.) The Board of Trade may from time to time appoint such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and servants as they may think necessary for the registration of companies under this act, and remove them at plea sure: (2.) The Board of Trade may make such regulations as they think fit with respect to the duties to be performed by any such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and servants as aforesaid: (3.) The Board of Trade may from time to time determine the place or places at which offices for the registration of companies are to be established: provided always, that there shall be at all times maintained in each of the three parts of the United Kingdom at least one such office, and that no company shall be registered except at an office within that part of the United Kingdom in which, by the memorandum of association, the registered office of the company is declared to be established: (4.) The Board of Trade may from time to time direct a seal or seals to be prepared for the authentication of any documents required. for or connected with the registration of companies: of registration office. (5.) Every person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar of Joint-stock Companies; and there shall be paid for such inspection such fees as may be appointed by the Board of Trade, not exceeding One shilling for each inspection; and any person may require a copy or extract of any document or any part of any document, to be certified by the registrar; and there shall be paid for such certified copy or extract such fee as the Board of Trade may appoint, not exceeding Sixpence for each folio of such copy or extract, or in Scotland for each sheet of two hundred words; and such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of the matters therein contained in all legal proceedings whatever: (6.) The existing registrar, assistant registrars, clerks, and other officers and servants in the Office for the Registration of Joint-stock Companies, shall, during the pleasure of the Board of Trade, hold the offices and receive the salaries hitherto held and received by them, but they shall in the execution of their duties conform to any regulations that may be issued by the Board of Trade: (7.) There shall be paid to any registrar, assistant registrar, clerk, or servant that may hereafter be employed in the registration of joint-stock companies such salary as the Board of Trade may, with the sanction of the Commissioners of the Treasury, direct: (8.) Whenever any act is herein directed to be done to or by the Registrar of Joint-stock Companies, such act shall, until the Board of Trade otherwise directs, be done in England to or by the existing Registrar of Joint-stock Companies, or in his absence by the Assistant Registrar, in Scotland to or by such officer as the Board of Trade may appoint, and in Ireland to or by the existing Assistant Registrar of Joint-stock Companies for Ireland; but in the event of the Board of Trade altering the constitution of the existing Registry Office, such act shall be done to or by such officer or officers, and at such place or places with reference to the local situation of the registered offices of the companies to be registered, as the Board of Trade may appoint. Repeal of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110; 19 & 11 Vict., c. 78; and 18 & 19 Vict., c. 133. Provisions of c. 45; 12 & 13 this act, &c. PART V. REPEAL OF FORMER ACTS, AND TEMPORARY PROVISIONS. Repeal. CVII. There shall be repealed, (1.) The act passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and ten : (2.) An act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-eight, intituled "An Act to amend an Act for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint-stock Companies:" (3.) The Limited Liability Act, 1855: But such repeal shall not take effect with respect to any company completely registered under the said act of the eighth year of Her present Majesty until such company has obtained registration under this act, as hereinafter mentioned. CVIII. The following acts (that is to say) :— (2.) An act passed in the thirteenth year of the hundred and eight, and intituled “An Act (3) An act passed in the eighth year of the (4.) An act passed in the ninth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninetyeight, and intituled "An act for facilitating the Winding-up the Affairs of Joint-stock Companies in Ireland unable to meet their pecuniary engagements:" shall not apply to companies registered under this act, nor to companies registered under the said act of the eighth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and ten, from and after the date at which they have obtained registration under this act, as hereinafter mentioned. CIX. No repeal hereby enacted shall affect Saving clause (1.) Anything duly done under any acts hereby as to repeal. repealed before such repeal comes into operation : (2.) Any right acquired or liability incurred (3.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or other punish- |