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An Act to confer further powers on Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited; and for other purposes.
[12th November 1992]
WHEREAS by [1857 c. ii (20 Vict.).] Price’s Patent Candle Company’s (Limited) Act 1857 [1855 c. xxii.] Price’s Patent Candle Company’s Act 1855, which related to and incorporated Price’s Patent Candle Company, was repealed and the company was re-incorporated by the name of Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”):
And whereas by subsequent Acts further powers have been conferred upon the Company:
And whereas the Company’s business comprises manufacturing, selling and dealing in candles, night-lights and a number of other articles and substances in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them:
And whereas it is expedient, in order to enable the Company to carry on their undertaking to the best advantage that particular restrictions and limitations imposed on the Company by their existing enactments with regard to the borrowing of money should be modified or removed:
And whereas other statutory provisions regulating the Company’s affairs are in many respects outmoded having regard to present-day requirements and it is expedient to enable the Company’s powers to be modernised:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it 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, that is to say:—
This Act may be cited as the Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited Act 1992.
In this Act—
“the Company” means Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited;
“the existing Acts” means [1857 c. ii (20 Vict.).] Price’s Patent Candle Company’s (Limited) Act 1857, [1883 c. xii.] Price’s Patent Candle Company (Limited) Act 1883, [1912 c. xx.] Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited Act 1912 and [1920 c. iv.] Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited Act 1920.
The provisions of the existing Acts specified in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in that Schedule.
Notwithstanding anything in any enactment or other instrument constituting or regulating the Company, the Company may, when registered under the [1985 c. 6.] Companies Act 1985 as a company limited by shares, exercise the powers of paragraph 6 (2) of Schedule 21 to that Act (effect of registration under section 680 of the said Act of 1985) and adopt Table A with such modifications as appear to them to be appropriate.
(1) Section 17 (Qualification of directors) of Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited Act 1920 shall cease to have effect.
(2) The provisions of the existing Acts specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act (most of which are spent) are hereby repealed.
(3) Upon the adoption of Table A in accordance with section 4 of this Act the provisions of the existing Acts specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed.
The costs, charges and expenses preliminary to and of and incidental to the preparing, applying for, obtaining and passing of this Act or otherwise in relation thereto shall be paid by the Company and may in whole or in part be defrayed out of revenue.
Price’s Patent Candle Company Limited Act 1992 (C. Xvii)