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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/schedule-4/paragraph-89",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/6",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/89",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "References to provisions for liabilities are to any amount retained as reasonably necessary for the purposes of providing for any liability the nature of which is clearly defined and which is either likely to be incurred, or certain to be incurred but uncertain as to amount or as to the date on which it will arise.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 Pt. 7 para. 89 substituted (12.11.2004 with effect as mentioned in reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Companies Act 1985 (International Accounting Standards and Other Accounting Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2947), reg. 14(1), Sch. 2 para. 12(a)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 Pt. 7 para. 89 substituted (12.11.2004 with effect as mentioned in reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Companies Act 1985 (International Accounting Standards and Other Accounting Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2947), reg. 14(1), Sch. 2 para. 12(b)"
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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