Companies Act (with its many variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and South Africa relating to company law.
The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Companies Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Companies Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to company law.
Famous quotes containing the words companies and/or act:
“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)
“I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)