Effect of registration

When a company is registered in pursuance of this Part– (a) all contained in any Act, Ordinance, deed of settlement, contract of copartnery, letters patent, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, including, in the case of a company registered as a company limited by guarantee, the resolution declaring the amount of the guarantee, shall be deemed to be conditions and regulations of the company, in the same manner and with the same incidents as if so much thereof as would, if the company had been formed under this Act, have been required to be inserted in the memorandum, were contained in a registered memorandum, and the residue thereof were contained in registered articles; (b) all the provisions of this Act shall apply to the company, and the members, contributories and creditors thereof, in the same manner in all respects as if it had been formed under this Act, subject as follows (that is to say)– (i) the regulations in Part A in Schedule I shall not apply unless adopted by special Schedule I. (ii) the provisions of this Act relating to the numbering of shares shall not apply to any joint stock company whose shares are not numbered; 162 (iii) subject to this section, the company shall not have power to alter any provision contained in any Act relating to the company; (iv) subject to this section, the company shall not have power, without the sanction of the Attorney General, to alter any provision contained in any letters patent relating to the company; (v) the company shall not have power to alter any provisions contained in a royal charter or letters patent with respect to the objects of the company; (vi) in the event of the company being wound-up, every person shall be a contributory, in respect of the debts and liabilities of the company contracted before registration, who is liable to pay or contribute to the payment of any debt or liability of the company contracted before registration, or to pay or contribute to the payment of any sum for the adjustment of the rights of the members among themselves in respect of any such debt or liability, or to pay or contribute to the payment of the costs and expenses of the company, so far as relates to such debts or liabilities as aforesaid; (vii) every contributory shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company, in the course of the winding-up, all sums due from him in respect of any such liability as aforesaid; and 163 (viii) in the event of the death, bankruptcy, or insolvency of any contributory, or marriage of any female contributory, the provisions of this Act with respect to the personal representatives of deceased to the trustees of bankrupt or insolvent contributories, and to the liabilities of husbands and wives, respectively, shall apply; (c) the provisions of this Act with respect to– (i) the of an (ii) the powers of an unlimited company on registration as a limited company to increase the nominal amount of its share capital and to provide that a portion of its share capital shall not be capable of being called up except in the event of (iii) the power of a limited company to determine that a portion of its share capital shall not be capable of being called up except in the event of winding- up, shall apply notwithstanding any provisions contained in any Act, Ordinance, Royal Charter, deed of settlement, contract of copartnery, letters patent, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company; (d) nothing in this section shall authorise the company to alter any such provisions contained in any deed of settlement, contract of copartnery, letters patent, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, as would, if the company had originally been formed under this Act, have been required to be contained in the memorandum and are not authorised to be altered by this Act; (e) nothing in this Act shall derogate from any of altering its constitution or regulations which may by virtue of any Act, Ordinance, deed of settlement, contract of copartnery, letters patent, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, be vested in the company.