New South Wales: The United Insurance Company Act 1869 32 Vic (NSW)

4 32° VIC. 1869. United Insurance Company. Uximp Insvaarct Ar) Act to alter the title of the United Fire and — Life Insurance Company of Sydney to that of "The United Insurance Company" and in other respects to amend the provisions of the Act to incorporate the said Company. [16th March, 1869.] Preamble. HEREAS by an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled "An Act to incorporate " the United Fire and Life Insurance Company of Sydney and for * other purposes therein mentioned" the said Company was incorpo- rated by the name style and title of the " United Fire and Life Insurance Company of Sydney"' with the powers and subject to the provisions therein contained And whereas in the said Act it was provided that the several laws rules and regulations clauses and agreements contained in a certain Deed of Settlement bearing date the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two and purporting to be a Deed of Settlement of the said Company or which should be made under or by virtue or in pursuance thereof should be the by-laws for the time being of the said Corporation subject nevertheless to be and the same might be amended altered or repealed either wholly or in part in the manner provided by the said Deed of Settlement And whereas the said Corporation has from time to time amended altered and repealed certain of the original clauses and provisions of the said Deed of Settlement and the said clauses and provisions so amended altered and repealed are now appended to the said Deed of Settlement in the first second and third Schedules thereto And whereas the title of the said Corporation does not accurately describe the business of the said Corporation and it is desirable that the title of the said Corporation should be altered and that the said Schedules of the said Deed of Settlement should be con- firmed in the manner hereinafter mentioned Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :— Title of Company 1. From and after the passing of this Act the title of the said altered. Corporation shall be 'The United Insurance Company" and all the provisions of the said recited Act subject to the amendments and alterations hereinafter mentioned shall apply to the said Corporation under the style or title of "The United Insurance Company" And subject as aforesaid the said recited Act and this Act shall be read as one het And everything lawfully done or commenced under the said recited Act previously to the passing of this Act may be proceeded with in the said title of " The United Insurance Company" as if done or commenced under this Act. Alterations in Deed 2. The said first second and third Schedules to the said Deed of of Settlement con- Settlement appended and all matters and things therein contained shall . . be and are hereby ratified and confirmed except in so far as any of them shall or may be inconsistent or incompatible with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act or of any of the laws or statutes now or hereafter 1869. 32° VIC. United Insurance Company. hereafter to be in force in the Colony Provided that the clauses and provisions of the said Deed of Settlement by the said Schedules * amended altered or repealed shall be taken to have been so amended altered or repealed at the respective dates of the respective meetings of the said Corporation at which the same were finally passed and not at the date of the passing of this Act And the said clauses and provisions shall from such respective dates have the force and effect of by-laws of the said Corporation as fully as if they had been originally embodied in the said Deed of Settlement. 3. This Act and the said recited Act may together be cited as Short title. "The United Insurance Company Acts."