{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1976/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1976/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/69",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1976",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Power of registrar to accept information on microfilm, etc.",
  "text": "(1) The registrar of companies may, if he thinks fit, accept under any provision of the Companies Acts requiring a : document to be delivered to him any material other than a document which contains the information in question and is of a kind approved by him.\n(2) The delivery to the registrar of material accepted by him as aforesaid shall be a sufficient compliance with the provision in question.\n(3) Section 426 of the Act of 1948 (inspection, production and evidence of documents kept by the registrar) shall have effect as if any material so accepted were a document kept by the registrar.\n(4) In this section any reference to delivering a document shall be construed as including a reference to sending, forwarding, producing or (in the case of a notice) giving it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/69/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:27:44.331943+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."
}