Companies Act, 1929 
An Act to consolidate the Companies Acts, 1908 to 1928, and 
and certain other enacements connected with the said Acts. 
[Toth May, 1029.] 
BE it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with 
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority 
of the same. as follows: — 
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INCORPORATION 
OF 
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BY 
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Memorandum of 
1.—(1) Any seven or more persons, or, where the company to be Mode of forming 
formed will be a private company, any two or more persons, asso- opera 
ciated for any lawful purpose may, by subscribing their names to a 
memorandum of association and otherwise complying with the 
requirements of this Act in respect of registration, form an incor- 
porated company, with or without limited liability. 
Such a company may be either— 
A company having the liability of its members limited 
by the memorandum to the amount, if any, unpaid on the 
shares respectively held by them (in this Act termed “a 
company limited by shares’); or 
A company having the liability of its members limited by 
the memorandum to such amount as the members may 
respectively thereby undertake to contribute to the assets 
of the company in the event of its being wound up (in this 
Act termed “a company limited by guarantee’); or 
A company not having any limit on the liability 
members (in this Act termed ‘‘an unlimited comn-- 
Association. 
2.—(1) The memorandum of every company must ..: Requirements 
(a The name of the companv with “Limited” as the last memorandum. 
word of the name in the case a company i+ Cores 
or by guarantee: 
Whether the registered office « 
situate in England or in Scotland 
The obiects of the company