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in relation to company law. The Bill for an Act with this short title will usually have been known as a Companies Bill during its passage through

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. Companies Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to company law.

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Botswana

*The Companies Act 2007

India

*The Indian Companies Act 1882 *The

Companies Act 1913 The Companies Act 2013 is an Act of the Parliament of India on Indian company law which regulates incorporation of a company, responsibilities of a company, directors, dissolution of a company. The 2013 Act is divided into 29 chapters containin ...

*The

Companies Act 1956 The Companies Act 1956 was an Act of the Parliament of India, enacted in 1956, which enabled companies to be formed by registration, and set out the responsibilities of companies, their directors and secretaries. It was repealed and replaced b ...

*The

Companies Act 2013 The Companies Act 2013 is an Act of the Parliament of India on Indian company law which regulates incorporation of a company, responsibilities of a company, directors, dissolution of a company. The 2013 Act is divided into 29 chapters containin ...

Kenya

* The Companies Act 1962 (Cap 486) * The Companies Act 2015

Malaysia

*The Companies Act 1965

New Zealand

Companies Act 1993 The Companies Act is an Act of Parliament passed in New Zealand in 1993. The Act regulates companies, and replaces the earlier Companies Act of 1955. See also * ''Mason v Lewis -'' Decision holding that the test for determining what reckless tra ...

(originall
Joint Stock Companies Act 1860

Singapore

*The Companies Act 1967 (Cap 50)

Brunei

*The

Companies Act 1984 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 ...

South Africa

*The

Companies Act, 1973 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 ...

*The

Companies Act, 2008 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 ...

United Kingdom

*The Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corporation Act 1719 (6 Geo 3 c 18) or Bubble Act *The

Trading Companies Act 1834 Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...

*The

Chartered Companies Act 1837 Chartered may refer to: * Charter, a legal document conferring rights or privileges ** University charter ** Chartered company * Chartered (professional), a professional credential * Charter (shipping) * Charter (airlines) * Charter (typeface) * Ch ...

(7 Will 4 & 1 Vict c 73) *The Joint Stock Companies Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict c 110) *The

Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 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 ...

(8 & 9 Vict c 16) *The Limited Liability Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict c 133) *The Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict c 47) *The

Companies Act 1862 The Companies Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c.89) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating UK company law, whose descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Provisions *s 6 'Any seven or more persons associated for any lawful purpose may ...

(25 & 26 Vict c 89) *The Companies Seals Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict c 19) *The Companies Clauses Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict c 118) *The Railway Companies Act (1867) (30 & 31 Vict c 127) *The Companies Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict c 131) *The Companies Clauses Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict c 48) *The Joint-Stock Companies Arrangement Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict c 104) *The Companies Act 1877 (40 & 41 Vict c 26) *The

Companies Act 1879 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 ...

(42 & 43 Vict c 76) *The Companies Act 1880 (43 Vict c 19) *The Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883 (46 & 47 Vict c 30) *The Chartered Companies Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict c 56) *The Companies Act 1886 (49 & 50 Vict c 23) *The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict c 48) *The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict c 37) *The Companies (Memorandum of Association) Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 62) *The Companies (Winding-up) Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 63) *The Directors Liability Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 64) *The Companies (Winding-up) Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict c 58) *The Life Assurance Companies (Payment into Court) Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict c 8) *The

Companies Act 1907 The Companies Act 1907 (7 Edw. 7. c. 50) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating UK company law, whose descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Reforms One reform made by the 1907 Act was to introduce explicitly a separate se ...

(7 Edw 7 c 50) *The

Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 The Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament, which regulated UK company law. Its descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Cases decided under this Act *''Re Parkes Garage (Swadlincote) Ltd'' 9291 Ch 139 See also ...

*The Railway Companies (Accounts and Returns) Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo 5 c 34) *The Statutory Companies (Redeemable Stock) Act 1915 (5 & 6 Geo 5 c 44) *The Companies Act 1928 *The

Companies Act 1929 The Companies Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo.5 c.23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which regulated UK company law. Its descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Provisions Forms made under the 1929 Act introduced the term "Companies Cou ...

(19 & 20 Geo 5 c 23) *The Companies Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo 6 c 47) *The

Companies Act 1948 The Companies Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo.6 c.38) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which regulated UK company law. Its descendant is the Companies Act 2006. Cases decided under this Act *''Bushell v Faith'' 970AC 1099 *''Scottish ...

(11 & 12 Geo 6 c 38) *The Insurance Companies Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz 2 c 72) (Repealed) *The

Companies Act 1967 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 ...

(c 81) (Repealed) *The Insurance Companies Amendment Act 1973 (c 58) *The Insurance Companies Act 1974 (c 49) (Repealed) *The Companies Act 1976 (c 69) (Repealed) *The Insurance Companies Act 1980 (c 25) *The Insurance Companies Act 1981 (c 31) (Repealed) *The

Insurance Companies Act 1982 Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...

(c 50) (Repealed) *The

Companies Act 1985 The Companies Act 1985 (c. 6) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, enacted in 1985, which enabled companies to be formed by registration, and set out the responsibilities of companies, their ...

(c 6) *The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c 9) *The

Companies Act 1989 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 ...

(c 40) *The Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 (c 58) *The Insurance Companies (Reserves) Act 1995 (c 29) (Repealed) *The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c 27) *The

Companies Act 2006 The Companies Act 2006 (c 46) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which forms the primary source of UK company law. The Act was brought into force in stages, with the final provision being commenced on 1 October 2009. It largely ...

(c 46) The Companies Acts 1862 to 1893 is the

collective title A collective title is an expression by which two or more pieces of legislation may, under the law of the United Kingdom, be cited together. A famous example is the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949. Construction of references to citation with a group ...

of the Companies Act 1862, the Companies Seals Act 1864, the Companies Act 1867, the Joint-Stock Companies Arrangement Act 1870, the Companies Act 1877, the Companies Act 1879, the Companies Act 1880, the Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1883, the Companies Act 1886, the Companies (Memorandum of Association) Act 1890, the Companies (Winding-up) Act 1890, the Directors Liability Act 1890 and the Companies (Winding-up) Act 1893. The Companies Acts 1948 to 1976 was the collective title of the Companies Act 1948, Parts I and III of the Companies Act 1967, the Companies (Floating Charges and Receivers) (Scotland) Act 1972, section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972, sections 1 to 4 of the Stock Exchange (Completion of Bargains) Act 1976, section 9 of the Insolvency Act 1976, and the Companies Act 1976. The Companies Acts 1948 to 1980 was the collective title of the Companies Act 1948, Parts I and III of the Companies Act 1967, the Companies (Floating Charges and Receivers) (Scotland) Act 1972, section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972, sections 1 to 4 of the Stock Exchange (Completion of Bargains) Act 1976, section 9 of the Insolvency Act 1976, the Companies Act 1976, and the Companies Act 1980. The Companies Clauses Acts 1845 to 1889 is the collective title of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, the Companies Clauses Act 1863, the Companies Clauses Act 1869, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1888 and the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1889. The Life Assurance Companies Acts 1870 to 1872 was the collective title of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2 *The Life Assurance Companies Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict c 61) *The

Life Assurance Companies Act 1871 Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy t ...

(34 & 34 Vict c 58) *The

Life Assurance Companies Act 1872 Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy t ...

(35 & 36 Vict c 41)

Scotland

*The Companies Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict c 17) *The Railway Companies (Scotland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict c 126) *The Companies (Floating Charges) (Scotland) Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz 2 c 46)

Northern Ireland

*The Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 1960 (c 22) (NI) *The

Insurance Companies (Northern Ireland) Act 1968 Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...

(c 6) (NI) *The Open-Ended Investment Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c 13) Companies Order A number of

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with this title (or some variation on it) have been passed. The change in nomenclature is due to the demise of the

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and the imposition of

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. These orders are considered to be primary legislation. *The

Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 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 ...

(S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I.6)) *The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1035 (N.I. 9)) *The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2404 (N.I.18)) *The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/593 (N.I.5)) *The Companies (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1504 (N.I.10)) *The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1967 (N.I.17))

References

Chatfield, Michael. "Companies Acts." In ''History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia''
edited by

Michael Chatfield Michael Chatfield (1930s-2004) was an American economist, accounting historian, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the Southern Oregon University, known for his work on the history of accounting and accounting thought, and particularly for hi ...

and

Richard Vangermeersch Richard G.J. Vangermeersch (born 1940) is an American economist, and Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Rhode Island, particularly known for his ''History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia,'' edited with Michael Chat ...

. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. pp. 136–139. {{UK legislation Lists of legislation by short title and collective title United Kingdom company law Westminster system South African legislation