West Wallsend Coal Company (Limited) Act 1890 (NSW)

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO QUARTO

VICTORIA R E G I N E .

An Act to confirm the removal by the West Wallsend Coal Company (Limited), of its registered office to Sydney, and for pro­ viding that the Articles of Association adopted by the Company immediately after its registration shall have the same efficacy as if the same had been the original Articles of Association of the Company. [10th July, 1890.1

WHEREAS the West Wallsend Coal Company, Limited (herein­July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five duly incorporated after called the " Company"), was on the fourteenth day of
under the provisions of the " Companies Act," and the Memorandum of Association stated that the registered office would be situated in Newcastle : And whereas in pursuance of a special resolution of the Company the registered office of the Company was afterwards removed to Sydney : And whereas doubts arc entertained whether the Company had power to change the locality of its registered office : And whereas no Articles of Association were registered by the Company with its Memorandum of Association, but a special resolution was immediately after the registration of the Company duly passed repealing the regulations contained in Table A of the " Companies Ac t " and adopting certain Articles of Association as the regulations of the Company : And whereas it is desirable that the provisions contained

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in the Articles of Association so adopted by special resolution as aforesaid shall have the same efficacy in all respects as if those Articles had been the original Articles of Association of the Company, and it is also desirable to remove all doubts as to the power of the Company to change its registered office to Sydney and to validate all acts done by it there : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. The Memorandum of Association of the Company shall henceforth be read as if Sydney had been mentioned as the place where the registered office of the Company was proposed to be, and nothing heretofore done shall be invalidated by reason only of the Company having no power to change its registered office from New­ castle to Sydney.
2. That the Articles of Association of the Company, which were immediately after the incorporation of the Company adopted by special resolution as aforesaid, shall have the same efficacy as if the same had been the original Articles of Association of the Company and had been signed at the same time as, and registered concurrently with, the Memorandum of Association.

3. This Act may be cited as the " West Wallsend Coal Com­ pany (Limited) Act, 1890."