{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-389",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948/section-389.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1948",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1948",
  "path": "section/389",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "389",
  "heading": "Addition of “limited ” to name.",
  "text": "When a company registers in pursuance of this Part of this Act with limited liability, the word “limited ” shall form, and be registered as, part of its name:\nProvided that this section shall not be taken as excluding the operation of section nineteen of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/38/section/389",
    "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."
}