HC Deb 19 February 1900 vol 79 cc378-9
MR. KIMBER

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade by whose direction it is that the Registrar of Joint. Stock Companies declines to receive for registration typewritten special resolutions under Section 53 of the Companies Act, 1M62, which requires that copies of special resolutions intended for filing must be printed; also what legal authority there is for holding that typewriting is not printing, and why printing by the typewriting machines is considered non-compliance with the law.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. RITCHIE,) Croydon

The Board of Trade are advised that as the Act of Parliament directs that copies of certain documents shall be printed, typo-written copies would not be in compliance with the statute, and they have so directed the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies.

MR. KIMBER

Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of allowing typewriting instead of printing?

MR. RITCHIE

It cannot be done without altering the Act of Parliament.