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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-2008/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-2008/section-85.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/27",
  "legislation_title": "Climate Change Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/climate-change-act-2008",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Regulations about reporting by companies",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, not later than 6th April 2012—\n(a) make regulations under section 416(4) of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46) requiring the directors' report of a company to contain such information as may be specified in the regulations about emissions of greenhouse gases from activities for which the company is responsible, or\n(b) lay before Parliament a report explaining why no such regulations have been made.\n(2) Subsection (1)(a) is complied with if regulations are made containing provision in relation to companies, and emissions, of a description specified in the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/section/85",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:42.070741+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}