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Twelfth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent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—