The Companies Act 2014 (No. 38 of 2014) was signed into law by President

Michael D. Higgins Michael Daniel Higgins ( ga, Mícheál Dónal Ó hUigínn; born 18 April 1941) is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster, who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since November 2011. Entering national politics throug ...

on 23 December 2014 to regulate

companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...

under

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. It was a consolidating and reforming piece of legislation, incorporating many of the provisions of the previous Companies Act 1963–2012 listed below.

Previous Companies Acts

To facilitate easy citation of the entire body of law affecting companies, each of the acts prior to 2005 includes a collective citation section which enables them to be collectively cited as "The Companies Acts 1963 - ear of current enactment. The Interpretation Act, 2005 provided that the Companies Acts 1963 to 2001 may be referred to as "The Companies Acts". Legislation enacted subsequent to the Interpretation Act, 2005 includes a section providing that "the Companies Acts and this Act shall be read as one" (e.g. Section 11 of The Companies (Amendment) Act 2009). Therefore, it was then appropriate to cite the entire body of legislation in Ireland affecting companies as "The Companies Acts". * Companies Act, 1963 * Companies (Amendment) Act, 1977 * Companies (Amendment) Act, 1982 * Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983 * Designated Investment Funds Act, 1985 * Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 * Companies (Amendment) Act, 1990 * Companies Act, 1990 * Companies (Amendment) Act, 1999 * Companies (Amendment) (Number 2) Act, 1999 * Company Law Enforcement Act, 2001 * Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act, 2003 * Companies (Amendment) Act 2009 * Companies (Amendment) Act 2012Companies (Amendment) Act 2012
Retrieved 2013-02-18.

References

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