# Companies Act 1948, Section 462: Short title and commencement.


(1) This Act may be cited as the Companies Act, 1948.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, being the day on which, by virtue of orders of the Board, of Trade under section one hundred and twenty-three of the Companies Act, 1947, all the provisions of that Act will first be in operation, and immediately after all those provisions are in operation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38/section/462 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-462
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