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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-222",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948",
  "path": "section/222",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "222",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which company may be wound up by court.",
  "text": "A company may be wound up by the court if—\n(a) the company has by special resolution resolved that the company be wound up by the court;\n(b) default is made in delivering the statutory report to the registrar or in holding the statutory meeting;\n(c) the company does not commence its business within a year from its incorporation or suspends its business for a whole year;\n(d) the number of members is reduced, in the case of a private company, below two, or, in the case of any other company, below seven;\n(e) the company is unable to pay its debts;\n(f) the court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38/section/222",
    "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."
}