# The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked), Article 61: Re-registration of unlimited company as limited

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject as follows, a company which is registered as unlimited may be re-registered as limited if a special resolution that it should be so re-registered is passed, and the requirements of this Article are complied with in respect of the resolution and otherwise.
(2) A company cannot under this Article be re-registered as a public company; and a company is excluded from re-registering under it if it is unlimited by virtue of re-registration under Article 118 of the Order of 1978 or Article 59 or this Order.
(3) The special resolution must state whether the company is to be limited by shares or by guarantee and—
(a) if it is to be limited by shares, must state what the share capital is to be and provide for the making of such alterations in the memorandum as are necessary to bring it (in substance and in form) into conformity with the requirements of this Order with respect to the memorandum of a company so limited, and such alterations in the articles of association as are requisite in the circumstances;
(b) if it is to be limited by guarantee, must provide for the making of such alterations in its memorandum and articles as are necessary to bring them (in substance and in form) into conformity with the requirements of this Order with respect to the memorandum and articles of a company so limited.
(4) . . . an application for the company to be re-registered as limited, framed in the prescribed form and signed by a director or by the secretary of the company, must be lodged with the registrar, together with the necessary documents, not earlier than the day on which the copy of the resolution forwarded under section 30 of the Companies Act 2006 is received by him.
(5) The documents to be lodged with the registrar are—
(a) a printed copy of the memorandum as altered in pursuance of the resolution; and
(b) a printed copy of the articles as so altered.
(6) This Article does not apply in relation to the re-registration of an unlimited company as a public company under Article 53.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/61 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-61
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