{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/schedule-6/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/schedule-6/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/6",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For purposes of paragraphs 15(c) and 16(c), a transaction or arrangement between a company and a director of it or of its holding company, or a person connected with such a director, is to be treated (if it would not otherwise be so) as a transaction, arrangement or agreement in which that director is interested.\n(2) An interest in such a transaction or arrangement is not “material” for purposes of those sub-paragraphs if in the board’s opinion it is not so; but this is without prejudice to the question whether or not such an interest is material in a case where the board have not considered the matter.\n“The board” here means the directors of the company preparing the accounts, or a majority of those directors, but excluding in either case the director whose interest it is.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 Pt. II paras. 15–27 renumbered from 1–3 and 5–14 (subject to the transitional and saving provisions mentioned in S.I. 1990/355, arts. 6–9) and internal cross-references in that Part renumbered accordingly by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 6(4), 213(2), Sch. 4 para. 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 para. 17 amended (1.12.2001) by 2000 c. 8, s. 374(4)(c); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/6/schedule/6/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:40.159612+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."
}