Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand Limited Act 1931

Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand Limited Act 1931

Private Act1931 No 2
Date of assent16 October 1931

An Act to make the Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand, Limited, subject to the provisions of The Companies Act 1908.

  • Preamble

    WHEREAS the Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand, Limited, is a company duly incorporated with limited liability in New South Wales under the law of that State, having an authorized capital of one million dollars divided into sixty-two thousand five hundred preference shares of one dollar each and nine hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred ordinary shares of one dollar each, whereof thirty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty preference shares and two hundred and eleven thousand four hundred and fifty ordinary shares have been subscribed: And whereas all the directors and all the shareholders of the said company are domiciled within New Zealand: And whereas the business of the company is entirely carried on within this Dominion, and has never been carried on elsewhere: And whereas it is expedient that the company should be made subject to the provisions of the New Zealand Companies Act 1908, as if it had been incorporated with limited liability thereunder:

    The expressions one million dollars and one dollar was substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the expressions five hundred thousand pounds and ten shillings pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title
  • This Act may be cited as the Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand, Limited, Act 1931.

2 The Companies Act 1908, to apply
  • (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section four of The Companies Act 1908, the Dominion Life Assurance Office of New Zealand, Limited, shall be subject to the provisions of The Companies Act 1908, in all respects as if the said company had been registered with limited liability under Part 2 of the said enactment, and shall be deemed for all purposes to have been so registered.

    (2) The dissolution of the said company under the laws of New South Wales shall not affect its corporate existence in New Zealand, nor shall any winding-up proceedings in New South Wales have any effect in New Zealand.

3 Private Act
  • This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.