In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say):
"Existing company" means a company formed and registered under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, or under the Companies Act, 1862;
"Company" means a company formed and registered under this Act or an existing company;
"Articles" means the articles of association of a company, as originally framed or as altered by special resolution, 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 First Schedule annexed to the Companies Act, 1862, or in that Table as altered in pursuance of section seventy-one of that Act, or in Table A. in the First Schedule to this Act;
"Memorandum" means the memorandum of association of a company, as originally framed or as altered in pursuance of the provisions of this Act;
"Document"