Commentary Part 17: a Company’s Share Capital Chapter 1: Shares and Share Capital of a Company Section 540: Shares
832.As now, generally speaking, references to a “share” in the Companies Acts (defined in section 2) includes stock. However, as recommended by the CLR, in future it will no longer be possible for a company to convert its shares into stock (see subsection (2)) but a company that has stock at the date that this provision comes into force will be able to reconvert its stock back into shares (see note on section 620).