(1) Subject to section 11, a private company may be re-registered as a public limited company if -
(a) a special resolution, complying with subsection (2) that it should be so re-registered is passed; and
(b) an application for the purpose, in the prescribed form and signed by a director or secretary of the company, is delivered to the registrar together with the documents mentioned in subsection (3); and
(c) the conditions specified in subsection (5)(a) and (b) (where applicable) and section 10(1)(a) to (d) are satisfied in relation to the company.
(2) The special resolution must -
(a) alter the company's memorandum so that it states that the company is to be a public limited company;
(b) make such other alterations in the memorandum as are necessary to bring it in substance and in form into conformity with the requirements of this Act with respect to the memorandum of a public limited company; and
(c) make such alterations in the company's articles as are requisite in the circum