January 2022
Intermediate to advanced
2500 pages
9h
English
10 & 20 VICTORI Cap. 47.
An Act for the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies and other Associations.
[14th July, 1856.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Law relating to the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies and other Associations should be consolidated and amended: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’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:
I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as “The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856.”
II. This Act shall not apply to Persons associated together for the Purpose of Banking or Insurance.