Joint Stock Companies Act 1856

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ACT 1856

CAP. XLVII.

An Act for the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, and other Associations. [14th July 1856.]

WHEREAS it is expedient, that the Law relating to the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies and other Associations should be consolidated and amended:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: