If national law provides that authority to represent a company may, in derogation from the legal rules governing the subject, be conferred by the statutes on a single person or on several persons acting jointly, that law may provide that such a provision in the statutes may be relied on as against third parties on condition that it relates to the general power of representation; the question whether such a provision in the statutes can be relied on as against third parties shall be governed by Article 16.
I gcás ina bhforáiltear, sa dlí náisiúnta, go bhféadfar, de mhaolú ar na rialacha dlíthiúla lena rialaítear an t-ábhar, an t-údarás ionadaíocht a dhéanamh thar ceann cuideachta a thabhairt, leis na reachtanna, do dhuine amháin nó do roinnt daoine ag gníomhú dóibh go comhpháirteach, féadfar foráil a dhéanamh, leis an dlí sin, go bhféadfar brath ar an bhforáil sin amhail i gcoinne tríú páirtithe ar choinníoll go mbaineann sé le cumhacht ghinearálta na hionadaíochta; is faoi Airteagal 16 a rialófar an cheist an bhféadfar brath, amhail i gcoinne tríú páirtithe, ar fhoráil den sórt sin sna reachtanna.