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Section 690: Power to substitute memorandum and articles for deed of settlement.

Companies Act 1985 · 1985 c. 6View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XXII: Bodies Corporate Subject, or Becoming Subject, to this Act (Otherwise than by Original Formation Under Part I) — Chapter II: Companies not Formed under Companies Legislation, but Authorised to Register

Subject as follows, a company registered in pursuance of this Chapter may by special resolution alter the form of its constitution by substituting a memorandum and articles for a deed of settlement.

The provisions of sections 4 to 6 of this Act with respect to applications to the court for cancellation of alterations of the objects of a company and matters consequential on the passing of resolutions for such alterations (so far as applicable) apply, but with the following modifications—

there is substituted for the printed copy of the altered memorandum required to be delivered to the registrar of companies a printed copy of the substituted memorandum and articles, and
on the delivery to the registrar of the substituted memorandum and articles or the date when the alteration is no longer liable to be cancelled by order of the court (whichever is the later)—
the substituted memorandum and articles apply to the company in the same manner as if it were a company registered under Part I with that memorandum and those articles, and
the company's deed of settlement ceases to apply to the company.

An alteration under this section may be made either with or without alteration of the company's objects.

In this section "deed of settlement" includes any contract of copartnery or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, not being an Act of Parliament, a royal charter or letters patent.

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