Page images
PDF
EPUB

THIRD SCHEDULE-(continued).

Date and
Chapter of Act.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors]

Title of Act.

tion, incorporation, and regulation of Joint Stock Companies.

An Act to amend the Acts for facilitating the winding up the affairs of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet their pecuniary engagements, and also to facilitate the dissolution and winding up of Joint Stock Companies and other partnerships. An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies Winding up Act, 1848.

An Act for the incorporation and regulation of Joint Stock Companies and other associations.

An Act to amend the Joint Stock Com-
panies Act, 1856.

An Act to amend the law relating to
Banking Companies.

An Act to amend the Act 7th & 8th Vict.
c. 111, for facilitating the winding up
the affairs of Joint Stock Companies
unable to meet their pecuniary engage-
ments, and also the Joint Stock Com
panies Winding up Acts, 1848 and 1849.
An Act to amend the Joint Stock Com-
panies Act, 1856.

An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857, and the Joint Stock Banking Companies Act,

1857.

An Act to enable Joint Stock Banking Companies to be formed on the principle of limited liability.

SECOND PART.

7 & 8 Vict. c. 113. s. 47.

to have the

powers of

Every Company of more than six persons established on Existing the 6th day of May, 1844, for the purpose of carrying on the Companies trade or business of bankers within the distance of 65 miles from London, and not within the provisions of the suing and Act passed in the session holden in the 7th and 8th being sued. years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter 113, shall have the same powers and privileges of suing and being sued in the name of any one of the public officers of such copartnership as the nominal plaintiff, petitioner, or defendant on behalf of such copartnership; and all judgments, decrees, and orders made and obtained in any such suit may be enforced in like manner as is provided with respect to such Companies carrying on the said trade or business at any place in England exceeding the distance of 65 miles from London, under the provisions of an Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter 46, intituled "An Act for the better regulating copartnerships of certain bankers in England, and for amending so much of an Act of the 39th and 40th years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for establishing an agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for advancing the sum of three millions towards the supply for the service of the year 1800,' as relates to the same,' provided that such first mentioned Company shall make out and deliver from time to time to the commissioners of stamps and taxes the several accounts or returns required by the last mentioned Act, and all the provisions of the last recited Act as to such accounts or returns shall be taken to apply to the accounts or returns so made out and delivered by such first mentioned Companies as if they had been originally included in the provisions of the last recited Act.

20 & 21 Vict. c. 49, Part of Section XII. Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act passed in the session holden in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of her present Majesty, Chapter 113, and intituled “ Än Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England," or in any other Act, it shall be lawful for any number of persons, not

Power to

form bank.

ing partnerships of ten

persons.

exceeding ten, to carry on in partnership the business of banking, in the same manner and upon the same conditions in all respects as any Company of not more than six persons could before the passing of this Act have carried on such business.

GENERAL ORDER AND RULES OF THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY

ΤΟ REGULATE THE MODE OF PROCEEDING UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 1862.

[11th November, 1862.]

(With the exception of Rules 52, 57, 69, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 77, these Rules are embodied in the text of this work, and will be found at the pages set opposite the number of each Rule).

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

36. Payment in of money and deposit of securities

86

86

87

152

[ocr errors]

106

107

107

63

[ocr errors]

64

64, 107

64, 108

64, 108

65

65

65

65

38

38

39

66

162

[ocr errors]

66, 162

[blocks in formation]

41.
42. Delivery out of securities and payment out

[blocks in formation]

191, 214

51. Applications to the Court or Judge under
sects. 137, 138, 144, 167 and 168
52. All orders made in chambers shall be drawn
up in chambers, unless specially directed to
be drawn up by the Registrar, and shall be
entered in the same manner, and in the same
office as other orders made in chambers.

53. Advertisements

54. Admission of documents

55. Affidavits

171

136

137

56. Certificate of chief clerk on liquidator's account 66
57. A register shall be kept of all proceedings in

the Judge's chambers, in each matter, in the
same manner as required by the 57th rule
of the 35th of the Consolidated General
Orders, and no documents or proceedings
are to be filed in the Judge's chambers
unless the Judge shall otherwise direct.

Rule 58. File of proceedings

59. Provisional official liquidators

60. Attendance and appearance of parties

56, 72, 136

57

47

61.

62.

ditto ditto

47

47

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

68. Duties of solicitor to official liquidator

79

69. The forms set forth or referred to in the third schedule to these orders, with such variations as the circumstances of each case may require, may be used for the respective purposes mentioned in such schedule.

70. Fees

71. Ditto

72. Taxation of costs

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small]

73. The power of the Court and of the Judge sitting in chambers to enlarge or abridge the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding to adjourn or review any proceeding, and to give any direction as to the course of proceeding, is unaffected by these rules.

74. The general practice of the Court, including the course of proceeding and practice at the Judge's chambers, as provided by the stat. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, and the General Orders of the Court relative thereto, shall in cases not provided for by the Companies Act, 1862, or these rules, and so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the said Act, or these rules, apply to all proceedings for winding up a company.

75. These rules apply only to proceedings under the Companies Act, 1862.

Commencement of Rules.

76. These rules shall take effect and come into operation on and after the 25th day of November, 1862.

Interpretation.

77. The first rule of the 23rd of the Consolidated General Orders, and the general interpretation clause therein, shall be deemed to extend and apply to the rules of this order,

« EelmineJätka »