37Recognized companies

37 Recognized companies

(1)  Where a corporation that is a recognized company for the purposes of the Companies (Tasmania) Code was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, registered as a foreign company under the Companies Act 1962 , the registered office of that corporation in the State the situation of which was specified –

(a) in a case to which paragraph (b) does not apply – in a notice lodged under section 346 (1) of that Act ; or

(b) if a notice or notices have been lodged under section 347 (1) of that Act in relation to the situation of the registered office of the corporation – in that notice or in the later or latest of those notices –

shall be deemed to be the principal office within the State of the corporation for the purposes of section 507 of the Companies (Tasmania) Code .

(2)  Where –

(a) before the commencement of this Act, an act, matter, or thing had been done or commenced under the Companies Act 1962 in relation to a corporation that was a foreign company for the purposes of that Act;

(b) the corporation is a recognized company for the purposes of the Companies (Tasmania) Code ; and

(c) that act, matter, or thing could have been done or commenced under the Companies (Tasmania) Code after the commencement of this Act in relation to a recognized company –

that act, matter, or thing shall be deemed to have been done or commenced, as the case may be, and, in the case of an act, matter, or thing that has been commenced, may be continued or completed under the Companies (Tasmania) Code , in relation to that corporation as a recognized company.