Spread across diverse sectors, nearly 38,000 new firms have been registered in the first eight months of the new companies law coming into force in April last year.Out of the total such entities, more than 1,100 are one-person companies, according to the latest data available with Corporate Affairs Ministry. Most provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 that replaces the nearly six-decade old legislation governing corporates in the country -- became effective from April 1, 2014.