{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chartered-companies-act-1837-repealed-5111993/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chartered-companies-act-1837-repealed-5111993/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/73",
  "legislation_title": "Chartered Companies Act 1837 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/chartered-companies-act-1837-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "By whom returns are to be registered.",
  "text": "All such returns as are herein-before directed to be made to the enrolment office of the Court of Chancery in England shall be registered by the clerks of enrolments in Chancery, or their deputy, and all such returns as are herein-before directed to be made to the general registry office at Edinburgh shall be registered by the lord clerk register or his deputy, and all such returns as are herein-before directed to be made to the enrolment office of the Court of Chancery in Ireland shall be registered by the clerks of enrolments in Chancery in Ireland, or their deputy, in books to be by them respectively kept for that purpose; and an alphabetical index shall be kept of the names of such companies or bodies, with references to such returns; and there shall be paid for the registering of each return a fee of 2½p per folio, and no more; and any person shall be at liberty to inspect such books and index, and there shall be paid for such inspection a fee of 5p, and no more; and any person shall be at liberty to require a copy of any such return, to be certified by the said clerks or their deputy, and there shall be paid for such certificate a fee of 7½p for each folio of such copy, and no more; and the day of the registration of every return to be made in pursuance of this Act shall be written on such return by the said clerks or their deputy.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of clerks of enrolments in Chancery now exercisable by officers of central office of Supreme Court: Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 105(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Functions of lord clerk register and his deputy in regard to public registers, records and rolls of Scotland now exercisable by Keeper of the Records of Scotland: Lord Clerk Register (Scotland) Act 1879 (c. 44), s. 6, Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 5 and Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Business of enrolment office of Court of Chancery in England now performed in central office of Supreme Court: Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 104"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4and1Vict/7/73/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:40.484190+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}