Companies (Amendment) Act, 1977

Forms for transfer of securities.

8.—The following subsection is hereby inserted after subsection (3) of section 5 of the Stock Transfer Act, 1963 :

“(4) Any regulations under subsection (2) of this section may—

(a) provide for forms on which some of the particulars mentioned in subsection (1) of section 2 of this Act are not required to be specified;

(b) provide for that section to have effect, in relation to such forms as are mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection or other forms specified in the regulations, subject to such amendments as are so specified (which may include an amendment of the reference in subsection (1) of section 2 of this Act to an instrument under hand);

(c) provide for all or any of the provisions of the regulations to have effect in such cases only as are specified in the regulations.”.