Article 5.

General saving for existing companies etc

1.

(1) Nothing in the Companies Act 2006 [2006 c.46.] affects -

(a) the registration or re-registration of a company under the former Companies Acts, or the continued existence of a company by virtue of such registration or re-registration, or

(b) the application in relation to an existing company of -

(i) Table B in the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856 [1856 c.47.],

(ii) Table A in any of the former Companies Acts, or

(iii) the Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985 [S.I. 1985/805.] or the Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 [S.R. (NI) 1986 No 264.].

(2) Section 1297(3) of the Companies Act 2006 (continuity of the law: things done under old law to be treated as done under the corresponding provision of the new law) applies -