Section 398 Meaning of unregistered company.
For the purposes of this Part of this Act, the expression “unregistered company ” shall include any trustee savings bank certified under the 26 & 27 Vict. c. 87.Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1863, and any partnership, whether limited or not, any association and any company with the following exceptions:—
a railway company incorporated by Act of Parliament, except in so far as is provided by the 13 & 14 Vict. c. 83.Abandonment of Railways Act, 1850, and the 32 & 33 Vict. c. 114.Abandonment of Railways Act, 1869, and any Acts amending them;
a company registered in any part of the United Kingdom under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, the Companies Act, 1862, the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, the Companies Act, 1929, or this Act;
a partnership, association or company which consists of less than eight members and is not a foreign partnership, association or company;
a limited partnership registered in England or Northern Ireland.