{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-183",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-183.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948",
  "path": "section/183",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "183",
  "heading": "Appointment of directors to be voted on individually.",
  "text": "(1) At a general meeting of a company other than a private company, a motion for the appointment of two or more persons as directors of the company by a single resolution shall not be made, unless a resolution that it shall be so made has first been agreed to by the meeting without any vote being given against it.\n(2) A resolution moved in contravention of this section shall be void, whether or not its being so moved was objected to at the time:\nProvided that—\n(a) this subsection shall not be taken as excluding the operation of section one hundred and eighty of this Act; and\n(b) where a resolution so moved is passed, no provision for the automatic reappointment of retiring directors in default of another appointment shall apply.\n(3) For the purposes of this section, a motion for approving a person's appointment or for nominating a person for appointment shall be treated as a motion for his appointment.\n(4) Nothing in this section shall apply to a resolution altering the company's articles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38/section/183",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:04.638870+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."
}