# The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked), Article 370: External branch registers

Extent: N.I.

(1) A company having a share capital whose objects comprise the transaction of business in any of the countries or territories specified in Part I of Schedule 14 may cause to be kept in any such country or territory in which it transacts business a branch register of members resident in that country or territory.
(2) Such a branch register is to be known as an “external branch register”; and—
(a) any dominion register kept by a company under section 116 of the Act of 1960 is to become known as an external branch register of the company;
(b) where any statutory provision or instrument (including in particular a company's articles) refers to a company's dominion register, that reference is to be read (unless the context otherwise requires) as being to an external branch register kept under this Article; and
(c) references to a colonial register occurring in articles registered before 1st January 1933 are to be read as referring to an external branch register.
(3) Part II of Schedule 14 has effect with respect to external branch registers kept under this Article.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/370 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-370
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