{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/section-179",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/section-179.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/40",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989",
  "path": "section/179",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "179",
  "heading": "Priority of market charge over unpaid vendor’s lien.",
  "text": "Where property subject to an unpaid vendor’s lien becomes subject to a market charge, the charge has priority over the lien unless the chargee had actual notice of the lien at the time the property became subject to the charge.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 179 applied (15.8.1995) by S.I. 1995/2049, reg. 25(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 179 wholly in force at 25.4.1991 see s. 215 and S.I. 1991/878, art. 2, Sch. (subject to certain savings in art. 3(6))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/40/section/179",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:45:50.516840+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."
}