{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-1999/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-1999/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/20",
  "legislation_title": "Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-1999",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification, &c.",
  "text": "(1) The entries relating to the Corporation in Part II of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and Part II of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (bodies of which all members are disqualified) shall cease to have effect on registration.\n(2) In Part III of Schedule 1 to each of those Acts (other disqualifying offices) there shall be added at the appropriate place—\n“Director of the Commonwealth Development Corporation nominated or appointed by the Secretary of State.”.\n(3) Subsection (2) comes into force on registration.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 23 wholly in force; s. 23(1)(3) in force at Royal Assent and s. 23(2) in force on registration (8.12.1999) see s. 23(3); S.I.1999/3258, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/20/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:54.089321+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."
}