(1) In this Act "old public limited company" means a public company limited by shares or a public company limited by guarantee and having a share capital in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say - (a) the company either existed on the appointed day or was incorporated after that day pursuant to an application made before that day; and (b) the company has not since the appointed day or the day of the company's incorporation, as the case may be, either been re-registered as a public limited company or become another form of company.
(2) The references in the Principal Act to a company other than a private company and, after the end of the general transitional period, in this Act other than this Part to a public limited company shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include references to an old public limited company.
(3) An old public limited company may (either before or after the end of the general transitional period) be re-regis