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Foreign Corporations Act 1991

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited in Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1991 c. 44
Year1991
any question arises whether a body which purports to have or, as the case may be, which appears to have lost corporate status under the laws of a territory which is not at that time a recognised State should or should not be regarded as having legal personality as a body corporate under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, andit appears that the laws of that territory are at that time applied by a settled court system in that territory,“a recognised State” is a territory which is recognised by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom as a State;the laws of a territory which is so recognised shall be taken to include the laws of any part of the territory which are acknowledged by the federal or other central government of the territory as a whole; anda material question is a question (whether as to capacity, constitution or otherwise) which, in the case of a body corporate, falls to be

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