PART XXIVThe Registrar of Companies, His Functions and Offices

705Companies' registered numbers

(1)

The registrar of companies shall allocate to every company a number, which shall be known as the company's registered number; and he may in addition allocate to any such company a letter, which is then deemed for all purposes to be part of the registered number.

(2)

" Company " here includes—

(a)

an oversea company which has complied with section 691 (delivery of statutes to registrar of companies, etc.) and which does not appear to the registrar not to have a place of business in Great Britain, and

(b)

any incorporated or unincorporated body to which any provision of this Act applies by virtue of section 718 (unregistered companies).