{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/section-181",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/section-181.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/6",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985",
  "path": "section/181",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "181",
  "heading": "Definitions for Chapter VII.",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n(a) “distributable profits”, in relation to the making of any payment by a company, means those profits out of which it could lawfully make a distribution (within the meaning given by section 829 of the Companies Act 2006) equal in value to the payment, and\n(b) “permissible capital payment” means the payment permitted by section 171;\nand references to payment out of capital are to be construed in accordance with section 171.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 181(a) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 75 (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/6/section/181",
    "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."
}