Company Law Enforcement Act, 2001

PART 10

Miscellaneous

Reference Memoranda and Articles of Association.

80.—(1) The registrar of companies may accept for registration a document containing standard form text from the objects clause of a memorandum of association or from articles of association and shall assign a reference number to each document so registered.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Companies Acts, a document filed pursuant to subsection (1) need not relate to a particular company or contain the registered number of a company.

(3) A memorandum or articles of association may contain a statement that it is to incorporate the text of a document previously registered with the registrar pursuant to subsection (1), which document shall be identified by the reference number assigned to it by the registrar.

(4) Where a memorandum or articles of association contains a statement as referred to in subsection (3), it shall be deemed for all purposes to incorporate within it the text of the relevant document filed with the registrar pursuant to subsection (1), so that it shall form and be read as one entire document, and where such a memorandum or articles of association has been registered by the registrar and is inspected by any person, the registrar shall also make available for inspection the related document filed with him or her pursuant to subsection (1).