COMPANIES ACT, 1929 
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{2) This section shall apply to— 
‘a) every company registered under this Act or the Acts 
repealed by this Act unless it was registered before the 
twenty-third day of November, nineteen hundred and 
sixteen; and 
every company incorporated outside Great Britain which 
has an established place of business within Great Britain, 
unless it had established such a place of business before 
the said date; and 
every company licensed under the Moneylenders Act, 17 & 18 Geo. 5. 
1927, whenever it was registered or whenever it estab- © 2% 
lished a place of business. 
(3) If a company makes default in complying with this section, 
every director of the company shall be liable on summary conviction 
for each offence to a fine not exceeding five pounds, and, in the case 
of a director being a corporation, every director, secretary and 
officer of the corporation, who is knowingly a party to the default, 
shall be liable to a like penalty: 
Provided that in England no proceedings shall be instituted 
under this section except by, or with the consent of, the Board of 
[rade. 
(4) For the purposes of this section— 
fa) the expression “director” includes any person in accord- 
ance with whose directions or instructions the directors 
of the company are accustomed to act: 
(b) the expression ‘‘christian name” includes a forename; 
{¢) the expression ‘‘initials” include a recognised abbreviation 
of a christian name; 
in the case of a peer or person usually known by a title 
different from his surname, the expression ‘“surname” 
means that title; 
references to a former christian name or surname do not 
include— 
(1) in the case of a peer or a person usually known by 
a British title different from his surname, the name by 
which he was known previous to the adoption of or 
succession to the title; or 
ii) in the case of natural born British subjects, a 
former christian name or surname where that name or 
surname was changed or disused before the person 
Dearing the name attained the age of eighteen years; or 
(iii) in the case of a married woman, the name or 
surname by which she was known previous to the 
marriage; 
the expression ‘“showcards’ means cards containing or 
exhibiting articles dealt with, or samples or representa- 
tions thereof.