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SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
Part VIII. 
APPLICATION OF AcT TO COMPANIES FORMED OR REGISTERED 
UNDER FORMER ACTS. 
Application of 316. In the application of this Act to existing companies, it 
Act to companies shall apply in the same manner— 
former Lom (1) in the case of a limited company, other than a company 
limited by guarantee, as if the company had been formed 
and registered under this Act as a companv limited by 
shares: 
35 & 26 Vict. 
c. 89. 
Application of 
Act to companies 
registered under 
former Com- 
panies Acts. 
in the case of a company limited by guarantee, as if the 
company had been formed and registered under this Act 
as a company limited by guarantee; and 
(3) in the case of a company other than a limited company, 
as if the company had been formed and registered under 
this Act as an unlimited company: 
Provided that reference, express or implied, to the date of 
registration shall be construed as a reference to the date at which 
the company was registered under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 
the Companies Act, 1862, or the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 
1908, as the case mav be. 
317. This Act shall apply to every company registered but not 
formed under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, the Companies 
Act, 1862, or the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, in the same 
manner as it is in Part IX of this Act declared to apply to companies 
registered but not formed under this Act: 
Provided that reference, express or implied, to the date of 
registration shall be construed as a reference to the date at which 
the company was registered under the Joint Stock Companies 
Acts, the Companies Act, 1862, or the Companies (Consolidation) 
Act, 1008. as the case mav be. 
Application of 318. This Act shall apply to every unlimited company registered 
A panies as a limited company in pursuance of the Companies Act, 1879, or 
ander former Section fifty-seven of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, in 
Companies Acts. the same manner as it applies to an unlimited company registered 
42 & 43 Vict. 4 v ie 
c. 76. in pursuance of this Act as a limited company: 
Provided that reference, express or implied, to the date of 
régistration shall be construed as a reference to the date at which 
the company was registered as a limited company under the said 
Act or said section. as the case mav be. 
Provision as to ~~ 319.—(1) A company registered under the Joint Stock Com- 
tered under the. panies Acts may cause its shares to be transferred in manner hitherto 
Joint Stock in. use, or in such other manner as the company may direct 
Companies Acts. 
_ (2) The power of altering articles under section ten of this 
Act shall, in the case of an unlimited company formed and registered