| Short Title: | Companies Act 1947 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to amend the law relating to companies and unit trusts and to dealing in securities, and in connection therewith to amend the law of bankruptcy and the law relating to the registration of business names. |
| Year: | 1947 |
| Citation: | 10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 47 |
| Royal Assent: | 6 August 1947 |
| Original Text: | http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/47/contents |
The Companies Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 47) was a United Kingdom Act of Parliament, that updated UK company law after the Companies Act 1929.
It covered issues such as winding-up and bankruptcy.[1]
It was soon recodified in the Companies Act 1948.