s 97 Companies’ registered numbers
(1) The registrar shall allocate to every company a number which shall be known as the company’s registered number, and he may, in addition, allocate to any such company a letter which shall be deemed for all purposes to be part of the registered number. . (2) In subsection (1) above “ company ” includes-— (a) any oversea company within the meaning of section 23(2) of this Act ; and Companies Act 1981 c. 62 113 .-(b) any imcorporated or unincorporated body to which Part V any provision of the 1948 Act applies by virtue of section 435 of that Act.