1964_COMPANIES_ORDINANCE — Page 232

1984 Ed.]

Companies

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"annual return" means the return required to be made, in the case of a company having a share capital, under section 107, and, in the case of a company not having a share capital, under section 108;

"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 in Table A in the First Schedule annexed to the Companies Ordinance 1865, or in that table as altered in pursuance of powers given under that Ordinance, or in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance 1911, or in that table as altered in pursuance of section 117 of the last mentioned Ordinance, or in Table A in the First Schedule to this Ordinance;

"book and paper" and "book or paper" includes accounts, deeds, writings, and documents;

"company" means a company formed and registered under this Ordinance or an existing company;

"company limited by guarantee" and "company limited by shares" have the meanings assigned to them respectively by section 4(2); (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 2)

"contributory" has the meaning assigned to it by section 171; (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 2)

"court" means the High Court; (Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 2)

"creditors' voluntary winding up" has the meaning assigned to it by section 233(4); (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 2)

"debenture" includes debenture stock, bonds and any other securities of a company whether constituting a charge on the assets of the company or not;

"default fine" has the meaning assigned to it by section 351(1); (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 2)

"director" includes any person occupying the position of director by whatever name called;

"document" includes summons, notice, order, and other legal process, and registers;

"existing company" means a company formed and registered under the Companies Ordinance 1865, or the Companies Ordinance 1911;

"financial year", in relation to any body corporate, means the period in respect of which any profit and loss account of the body corporate laid before it in general meeting is made up, whether that period is a year or not; (Added, 80 of 1974, s. 2)

"general rules" means general rules made under section 296 and includes forms;

(1 of 1865.)

(58 of 1911.)

First Schedule.