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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989-commencement-no-9-and-saving-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 1989 (Commencement No. 9 and Saving and Transitional Provisions) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989-commencement-no-9-and-saving-and-transitional-provisions-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions of Act brought into force by this Order",
  "text": "(1) Section 126 and, insofar as it is not yet in force, section 127 of the Act shall come into force on Ist July 1991 subject, in the case of section 126, to the transitional provisions set out in article 3 below.\n(2) Part VII of the Act shall come into force on 25th March 1991 insofar as is necessary to enable regulations to be made under the following provisions of that Part:\nSection 155(4) and (5)\nSection 158(4) and (5)\nSection 160(5)\nSection 173(4) and (5)\nSection 174(2) to (4)\nSections 185 and 186\nSection 187(3)\nParagraph 2(3) of Schedule 21.\n(3) Insofar as it is not yet in force, section 193 of the Act shall come into force on 1st April 1991 subject to the saving provision in article 4 below.\n(4) In Part X of the 1989 Act, the repeals effected by Schedule 24 of sections 712 and 715 of the Companies Act 1985, together with section 212 so far as relating to those repeals, shall come into force on Ist July 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
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  "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."
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