740 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
20 & 21 Vict. 
C. 14. 
20 & 21 Vict. 
C. 49. 
21 & 22 Vict. 
Cc. OI. 
“General rules” means general rules made under section three 
hundred and five of this Act, and includes forms; 
** Joint Stock Companies Acts’’ means the Joint Stock Companies 
Act, 1856, the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856, 1857, the 
Joint Stock Banking Companies Act, 18 57, and the Act to 
enable Joint Stock Banking Companies to be formed on the 
principle of limited liability or any one or more of those 
Acts, as the case may require; but does not include the Act 
passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen 
Victoria, chapter one hundred and ten, intituled An Act 
for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of 
Joint Stock Companies; 
“Memorandum” means the memorandum of association of a 
company, as originally framed or as altered in pursuance of 
any enactment; 
Prescribed” means as respects the provisions of this Act 
relating to the winding-up of companies, prescribed by 
general rules, and as respects the other provisions of this 
Act, prescribed by the Board of Trade: 
“Prospectus” means any prospectus, notice, circular, advertise- 
ment, or other invitation, offering to the public for sub- 
scription or purchase any shares or debentures of a 
company; 
“Real and personal,” as respects Scotland, means heritable 
and moveable; 
“The registrar of companies,” or, when used in relation to regis- 
tration of companies, “the registrar,” means the registrar 
or other officer performing under this Act the duty of 
registration of companies in England or Scotland. or in the 
stannaries, as the case requires; 
‘Share’ means share in the share capital of a company, and 
includes stock except where a distinction between stock and 
shares is expressed or implied; 
“Table A” means Table A in the First Schedule to this Act. 
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(2) A person shall not be deemed to be within the meaning of 
any provision in this Act a person in accordance with those directions 
or instructions the directors of a company are accustomed to act, by 
reason only that the directors of the company act on advice given 
by him in a professional capacity. 
Repeal, Savings, Extent, Short Title and Commencement. 
Repeal. 
52 & 53 Vict. 
C. 63. 
381.—(1) The enactments mentioned in the First Part of the 
Twelfth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent 
specified in the third column of that Part. 
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of section thirty-eight 
of the Interpretation Act, 1889—