# The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (repealed), Article 8: Shares of old public company held by itself; charges on own shares

Extent: N.I.

(1) The following has effect notwithstanding Article 3(2).
(2) References to a public company in Articles 156 to 159 of the principal Order (treatment of a company's shares when acquired by itself) do not include an old public company; and references in those Articles to a private company are to be read accordingly.
(3) In the case of a company which after 30th September 1984 remained an old public company and did not on or before that date apply to be re-registered under Article 10 of the Order of 1981 as a public company, any charge on its own shares which was in existence on or immediately before that date is a permitted charge for the purposes of Chapter V of Part VI of the principal Order and accordingly not void under Article 160 of that Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1035/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-8
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