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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-1990-no-2-order-commencement-no-3-order-northern-ireland-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1991/289",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (1990 No. 2 Order) (Commencement No. 3) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-1990-no-2-order-commencement-no-3-order-northern-ireland-1991",
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  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into operation certain of the provisions of the Companies (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (“the 1990 (No. 2) Order”).\nArticle 3 brings into operation, on 19th August 1991, Articles 44 to 47 of the 1990 (No. 2) Order which deal with a company’s capacity and related matters. Article 4 sets out transitional and saving provisions with respect to those Articles, the effect of which is to clarify that they are to have no retrospective effect.\nArticle 3 also brings into operation on 19th August 1991 the following provisions of the 1990 (No. 2) Order:\n(a) Articles 59 and (in part) 61 which insert new Articles into the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 dealing with the form in which documents are to be delivered to the registrar of companies and connected matters;\n(b) Article 70 (orders imposing restrictions on shares), and\n(c) paragraphs 10 and 11 of Schedule 5 (removal of restriction on transfer of shares and protection of company’s members against unfair prejudice).\nArticle 5 brings into operation on 19th August 1991 the repeal of certain words in Article 657(1)(b) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 effected by Schedule 6 to, and Article 113 of, the 1990 (No. 2) Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1991/289/note",
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  "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."
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