(1) In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -
"annual accounts or accounts" means - (a) individual accounts required by section 148, and (b) group accounts required by section 150;
"Act of 1986" means the Companies (Amendment) Act 1986;
"Act of 1990" means the Companies Act 1990;
"Act of 2003" means the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003;
"agent" does not include a person's counsel acting as such;
"annual return" means the return required to be made under section 125;
"annual return date" means the date in each year not later than that to which the annual return shall be made up, the calculation of which is provided for in section 127;
"articles" means the articles of association of a company, as originally framed or as altered by a resolution of the company, including, so far as they apply to the company, the regulations contained (as the case may be) in Table B in the Schedule annexed to the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, or in Table A in the Firs