January 2022
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2500 pages
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English
20 & 21 VICTORIA, Cap. 14.
An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856. [13th July, 1857.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, and that for that Purpose the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, should be 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, 1857.”
II. “The Joint Stock Companies Act,” 1856,” herein-after called “the Principal Act,” and ...