{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-629",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-629.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked",
  "path": "article/629",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "629",
  "heading": "Companies capable of being registered under this Chapter",
  "text": "(1) With the exceptions and subject to the provisions contained in this Article and Article 630—\n(a) any company consisting of 2 or more members, which was in existence on 2nd November 1862, including any company registered under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, and\n(b) any company formed after that date (whether before or after the commencement of this Order), in pursuance of any statutory provision (other than this Order), or of letters patent, or being otherwise duly constituted according to law, and consisting of 2 or more members,\nmay at any time, on making application in the prescribed form, register under this Order as an unlimited company, or as a company limited by shares, or as a company limited by gurarantee; and the registration is not invalid by reason that it has taken place with a view to the company's being wound up.\n(1A) A company shall not be prevented from registering under this Order as a private company limited by shares or by guarantee solely because it has only one member.\n(2) A company registered under the 1862 c. 89 Companies Act 1862, the 1908 c. 69 Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908, the 1932 c. 7(N.I.) Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 1932 or the Act of 1960 shall not register under this Article.\n(3) A company having the liability of its members limited by a statutory provision or letters patent, and not being a joint stock company, shall not register under this Article.\n(4) A company having the liability of its members limited by a statutory provision or letters patent shall not register under this Article as an unlimited company or as a company limited by guarantee.\n(5) A company that is not a joint stock company shall not register under this Article as a company limited by shares.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 1992/405"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/629",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:35.100869+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}