COMPANIES ACT, =r 
Interpretation. 
380.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the Interpretation 
following expressions have the meanings herebv assigned to them 
(that is to say): — 
‘“ Annual return’’ means the return required to be made, in the 
case of a company having a share capital, under section 
one hundred and eight, and, in the case of a company not 
having a share capital, under section one hundred and 
nine, of this Act; 
‘Articles’ means the articles of association of a company, as 
originally framed or as altered by special resolution, includ- 
ing, so far as they apply to the company, the regulations 
contained (as the case may be) in Table B in the Schedule 
annexed to the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, or in 
Table A in the First Schedule annexed to the Companies 
Act, 1862, or in that Table as altered in pursuance of 
section seventy-one of the last-mentioned Act, or in Table 
A in the First Schedule to the Companies (Consolidation) 
Act, 1908, or in that Table as altered in pursuance of 
section one hundred and eighteen of the last mentioned 
Act, or in Table A in the First Schedule to this Act; 
“Book and paper” and ‘book or paper’ include accounts, 
deeds, writings, and documents; 
“Company ’’ means a company formed and registered under this 
Act or an existing company; 
“Existing company’ means a company formed and registered 
under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, the Companies Act, 
1862, or the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, but does 
not include a company registered under the said enactments 
in Northern Ireland or the Irish Free State; 
“Company within the stannaries’ means a company engaged 
in or formed for working mines within the stannaries; 
“The court” used in relation to a company means the court 
having jurisdiction to wind up the company; 
“The court exercising the stannaries jurisdiction’ used in 
relation to any proceedings means the county court in 
which the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of 
the vice-warden of the stannaries in respect of those pro- 
ceedings is for the time being vested; 
“Debenture” includes debenture stock, bonds and any other 
securities of a company whether constituting a chare- - 
the assets of the company or not; 
“Director” includes any person occupying the positior 
director by whatever name called; 
“Document” includes summons, notice order, and other lega. 
process, and registers; 
“The Gazette” means, as respects companies registered in 
England, the London Gazette and as respects companies 
registered in Scotland. the Edinbureh Gazette: