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Where by any special Act hereafter passed and incorporating this part of this Act the name of any company incorporated either before or after the passing of this Act for the purpose of carrying on any undertaking is changed,—then and in every such case from the passing of the special Act the company by their new name shall have and may exercise the powers then vested in the company by their original name; and all Acts relating to the company by their original name shall be read and interpreted as if throughout those Acts, whenever the original name of the company or any reference to the company by their original name occurs, the new name of the company or a reference to the company by their new name were substituted.
No action, suit, bill, process, writ, indictment, information, or other proceeding, whether civil or criminal, which at or immediately before the passing of the special Act is commenced and is then pending,—either at the suit or instance of the company, by their original name, against any other corporation or any person, or at the suit or instance of any other corporation or any person against the company, by their original name,—shall abate, determine, or be otherwise impeached or affected for or by reason of the change of the name of the company; nor shall any notice, tender, requisition, warrant, summons, pleading, civil or criminal writ or other process, record, deed, contract, agreement, writing, or instrument then or thereafter to be made, issued, written, or commenced, be deemed to be vacated, discharged, invalidated, prejudiced, or affected by reason of the company or their undertaking being therein respectively called by the original name of the company or undertaking; and it shall not be necessary in any bill, suit, indictment, information, proceeding, notice, tender, requisition, warrant, summons, pleading, civil or criminal writ, or other process, or in any record, deed, contract, agreement, writing, or other instrument or matter, to aver that the company had been called or known for any period by the original name of the company, or that their undertaking had been called or known within that period by the original name of the undertaking, and that by the special Act effecting the change the names of the company and their undertaking were changed, and that after the passing of that special Act the company had been called or known by their new name, and their undertaking by its new name; but is shall be deemed true, lawful, and sufficient therein to aver the style and describe the company by their new name, and their undertaking by its new name, in the same manner as if the company had been originally incorporated, called, or known by their new name, and as if their undertaking had been originally called or known by its new name.
Notwithstanding the change of the name of the company, everything before the passing of the special Act effecting the change done, suffered, or confirmed under or by virtue of any other Act shall be as valid as if the special Act effecting the change were not passed; and the change of name and last-mentioned special Act respectively shall accordingly be subject and without prejudice to everything so done, suffered, or confirmed before the passing of the last-mentioned special Act, and to all rights, liabilities, claims, and demands, then present or future, which, if the change of name had not happened and such last-mentioned special Act had not been passed, would be incident to or consequent on anything so done, suffered, or confirmed.
Notwithstanding the change of the name of the company, all deeds, instruments, purchases, sales, securities, and contracts before the passing of the special Act effecting the change made under any other Act, or with reference to the purposes thereof, shall be as effectual to all intents in favour of, against, and with respect to the company as if the name of the company had remained unchanged.
Companies Clauses Act 1863