COMPANIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2013

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Citation	IR No. 46/2013

Number 46 of 2013

COMPANIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2013

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2019

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Act 2018 (42/2018), enacted 27 December 2018, and all statutory instruments up to and including Criminal Justice (Suspended Sentences of Imprisonment) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 1 of 2019), made 3 January 2018, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the preparation of this Revised Act, the Law Reform Commission can assume no responsibility for and give no guarantees, undertakings or warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature of the information provided and does not accept any liability whatsoever arising from any errors or omissions. Please notify any errors, omissions and comments by email to

revisedacts@lawreform.ie.

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COMPANIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2013

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Updated to 1 January 2019

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

Personal Insolvency Acts 2012 to 2015: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation (Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Act 2015 (32/2015), s. 27(2)). The Acts in this group are:

• Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (44/2012)

• Finance Act 2013 (8/2013), s. 100(3)

• Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (32/2013), ss. 37 to 40, s. 41(4), Part 8 and s. 1 (insofar as it relates to those sections and that Part)

• Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (46/2013), s. 9

• Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Act 2015 (32/2015)

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1978, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Companies Act 2014 (38/2014)

All Acts up to and including Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Act 2018 (42/2018), enacted 27 December 2018, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (Section 2) (Commencement) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 285 of 2014)

• Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 121 of 2014)

All statutory instruments up to and including Criminal Justice (Suspended Sentences of Imprisonment) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 1 of 2019), made 3 January 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

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COMPANIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2013

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Updated to 1 January 2019

Acts Referred to

Bankruptcy Act 1988	(No. 27)
Companies (Amendment) Act 1986	(No. 25)
Companies (Amendment) Act 1990	(No. 27)
Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003	(No. 44)
Companies Act 1963	(No. 33)
Companies Act 1990	(No. 33)
Companies Acts
Company Law Enforcement Act 2001	(No. 28)
Finance Act 2011	(No. 6)
Personal Insolvency Act 2012	(No. 44)
Taxes Consolidation Act 1997	(No. 39)

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COMPANIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2013

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2019

An Act to amend the Companies (Amendment) Act 1990 with respect to the jurisdiction of the courts in examinerships, to amend sections 7, 17 and 18 of the Companies (Amendment) Act 1986 and section 128 of the Companies Act 1963, to make further provision about the duties and powers of designated officers in circumstances where search warrants have been issued under section 20 of the Companies Act 1990, to amend the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 by substituting a new section for section 18 thereof, to amend the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 in relation to sections 25, 26, 27, 43 and 44 of that Act, to amend the Bankruptcy Act 1988 in relation to sections 17(2), 105(2), 130, 140A, 140B and 141 of that Act, to enable levies to be imposed on statutory auditors and audit firms with respect to the external quality assurance of certain of their activities in the field of statutory audits, to enable the State to make provision in respect of a matter that Article 2(4) of Commission Decision 2011/30/EU of 19 January 2011 permits Member States to make provision in respect of and to provide for related matters.

[24th December, 2013]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:

Definition

1. In this Act “Minister” means the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Amendment of Companies (Amendment) Act 1990

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Annotations

Amendments: