SECRETARIAL PRACTICE

It must further be borne in mind that companies incor-
porated in the Irish Free State are only subject to such of the
provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, as apply to companies
incorporated outside Great Britain and (sec. 384) that com-
panies incorporated in Northern Ireland are subject only to
the same provisions and to such of the other provisions of the
Act as relate expressly to companies incorporated in Northern
[reland.

No act altering the company law has yet been passed in
Northern Ireland and accordingly the law in force is the
Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, as amended by the Acts
of 1913 and 1917, and subject to any express provisions in
the Companies Act, 1929. It is believed that an amending
Bill will shortly be introduced on the lines of the Companies
Act, 1928, and if passed will be followed by a consolidation
Act on the lines of the Companies Act, 1929. In the mean-
time, the 1927 edition of ‘Secretarial Practice’ will afford the
best glide to secretaries of companies in Northern Ireland.

Companies The vast majority of companies are, however, companies
Act, 1929. to which the provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, apply.

This Act has arisen out of the report of the Committee
presided over by Mr. Wilfrid Greene, K.C. Asa result of that
report an Act was passed in 1928 making many important
alterations in company law. The modifications were so
substantial that it was considered undesirable to bring most
of the provisions of the 1928 Act into force until the Companies
Acts had again been consolidated into one Act. Accordingly
only ss. 53 and 92 and so much of the third schedule to the
1028 Act as repealed s. 45 of the Companies (Consolidation)
Act, 1908, were made operative. Consolidation has now
been effected by the Companies Act, 1929, and as that Act
came into force on the Ist November, 1929, the remainder of
the Companies Act, 1928, only came into force contemporane-
ously with the Companies Act, 1929. As the last-mentioned
Act repealed the Companies Act, 1928, it will be unnecessary
to refer to any of the sections of the 1928 Act. The draftsman
has taken advantage of the consolidation to effect a more
logical arrangement of the sections. This re-arrangement will
undoubtedly assist students; but practitioners familiar with
the Act of 1908 will have to beware of thinking that some
provision has been repealed merely because they do not find
it in its former setting.

In considering references in other Acts or in documents to
any section of the repealed Acts relating to companies, it will be
necessary to bear in mind s. 38 of the Interpretation Act, 1889,