{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-interest-company-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-interest-company-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1788",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Interest Company Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-interest-company-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Section of the community",
  "text": "For the purposes of the community interest test, any group of individuals may constitute a section of the community if—\n(a) they share a common characteristic which distinguishes them from other members of the community; and\n(b) a reasonable person might consider that they constitute a section of the community.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 substituted (1.10.2009) by The Community Interest Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1942), regs. 1(1), 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1788/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T03:31:00.086408+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."
}