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Version status: Repealed | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 5 June 1983

Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983 (No. 13)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part I Preliminary (ss. 1-3)
Repealed
 1. Short title, collective citation and commencement.
Repealed
 2. Interpretation.
Repealed
 3. Amendments, repeals and savings.
Part II Name of public limited company, registration and re-registration of companies (ss. 4-18)
Repealed
 4. Name of a public limited company.
Repealed
 5. Registration of companies.
Repealed
 6. Restriction on commencement of business by a public limited company.
Repealed
 7. Prohibition on formation of public company limited by guarantee and having a share capital.
Repealed
 8. Power of registrar to strike public limited company off register.
Repealed
 9. Re-registration of private company as public limited company.
Repealed
 10. Requirements as to share capital of private company applying to re-register as public limited company.
Repealed
 11. Re-registration of unlimited company as public limited company.
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 12. Old public limited companies.
Repealed
 13. Failure by an old public limited company to re-register as public limited company.
Repealed
 14. Re-registration of public limited company as private company.
Repealed
 15. Provisions supplementary to section 14.
Repealed
 16. Failure by old public limited company to re-register as another form of company.
Repealed
 17. Limitation on reduction by a public limited company of its allotted share capital.
Repealed
 18. Registration of joint stock companies.
Part III The capital of a company (ss. 19-44)
Authorised share capital and the issue of share capital (ss. 19-22)
Repealed
 19. Meaning of "authorised minimum".
Repealed
 20. Authority of company required for allotment of certain securities by directors.
Repealed
 21. Shares and debentures of private company not to be offered to public.
Repealed
 22. Document containing offer to state whether shares will be allotted where issue not fully subscribed.
Pre-emption rights (ss. 23-25)
Repealed
 23. Pre-emption rights.
Repealed
 24. Further provisions relating to pre-emption rights.
Repealed
 25. Transitional provisions relating to pre-emption rights.
Payment for share capital (ss. 26-37)
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 26. Subscription of share capital.
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 27. Prohibition on allotment of shares at a discount.
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 28. Payment for allotted shares.
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 29. Payment of non-cash consideration.
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 30. Experts' reports on non-cash consideration before allotment of shares.
Repealed
 31. Experts' reports: supplementary.
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 32. Experts' reports on non-cash assets acquired from subscribers, etc.
Repealed
 33. Provisions supplementary to section 32.
Repealed
 34. Relief.
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 35. Special provisions as to issue of shares to subscribers.
Repealed
 36. Contravention of sections 26 to 35.
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 37. Application of sections 26 to 36 in special cases.
Class rights (ss. 38-39)
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 38. Variation of rights attached to special classes of shares.
Repealed
 39. Registration of particulars of special rights.
Maintenance of capital (ss. 40-44)
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 40. Obligation to convene extraordinary general meeting in event of serious loss of capital.
Repealed
 41. Restriction on company acquiring its own shares.
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 42. Acquisition of shares in a company by company's nominee.
Repealed
 43. Treatment of shares held by or on behalf of a public limited company.
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 43A. Accounting for own shares.
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 44. Charges taken by public limited companies on own shares.
Part IV Restrictions on distribution of profits and assets (ss. 45-51)
Repealed
 45. Profits available for distribution.
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 45A. Development costs shown as an asset of a company to be set off against company's distributable profits.
Repealed
 46. Restriction on distribution of assets.
Repealed
 47. Other distributions of investment companies.
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 48. Realised profits of assurance companies.
Repealed
 49. The relevant accounts.
Repealed
 50. Consequences of making unlawful distribution.
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 51. Ancillary provisions.
Part V Change of status of certain companies (ss. 52-54)
Repealed
 52. Re-registration of limited company as unlimited.
Repealed
 53. Re-registration of unlimited company as limited.
Repealed
 54. Cesser of section 20 of Principal Act.
Part VI Miscellaneous (ss. 55-61)
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 55. Public limited company to publish certain matters in Iris Oifigiúil.
Repealed
 56. Trading under misleading name.
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 57. Penalties.
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 58. Revocation of power under section 24 of Principal Act to dispense with' in name of public limited companies.
Repealed
 59. Power by order to prescribe forms and to revoke and amend orders.
Repealed
 60. Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas.
Repealed
 61. Expenses.
Repealed
 First Schedule Minor and Consequential Amendments to the Companies Act, 1963
Repealed
 Second Schedule Forms of Memorandum of Association of a Public Limited Company
Repealed
 Third Schedule Repeals
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