(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act shall apply to every unlimited company registered (in a register kept in the State) as a limited company in pursuance of -
(a) the Companies Act 1879, or
(b) section 57 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908,
in the same manner as it applies to an unlimited company re-registered in pursuance of this Act as a limited company.
(2) In this Act a reference, express or implied, to the date of registration shall, in the case of an unlimited company registered as a limited company in pursuance of an enactment referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, of subsection (1), be read as a reference to the date on which it was registered as such in pursuance of the enactment referred to in that paragraph.