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Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  —

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (1990 Order) (Eligibility for Appointment as Company Auditor) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 and shall come into operation on 29th March 1993.

(2) In these Regulations, “the Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.

Consequential amendments

2.  The statutory provisions mentioned in the Schedule shall have effect with the amendments specified therein.

3.  Where a partnership constituted under the law of Northern Ireland or under the law of any other country or territory in which a partnership is not a legal person is appointed under any statutory provision as amended by these Regulations, the provisions of Article 29 of the Order shall apply to the appointment in the same way as they apply to the appointment as company auditor of such a partnership.

Transitional provision

4.  None of the amendments specified in the Schedule shall have the effect that a person is required to resign from or otherwise surrender an appointment, or that the appointment of a person must be terminated, before the date on which the person’s appointment would, apart from these Regulations, have expired.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

A. L. Brown

Assistant Secretary

18th February 1993.

I consent,

Mackay of Clashfern, C.

Dated 12th January 1993

I consent

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of State

Department of Trade and Industry

Dated 25th January 1993

I consent

Virginia Bottomley

Secretary of State

Department of Health

Dated 15th February 1993

The Department of Agriculture hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on 17th February 1993.

L.S.

R. S. Johnston

Assistant Secretary

The Department of Health and Social Services hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on

L.S.

J. Scott

Assistant Secretary

17th February 1993.

The Department of the Environment hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

D. S. S. McAuley

Assistant Secretary

17th February 1993.