{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/section-180",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989/section-180.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/40",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1989",
  "path": "section/180",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "180",
  "heading": "Proceedings against market property by unsecured creditors.",
  "text": "(1) Where property (other than land) is held by a recognised body as margin in relation to market contracts or as default fund contribution, or is subject to a market charge, no execution or other legal process for the enforcement of a judgment or order may be commenced or continued, and no distress may be levied, and no power to use the procedure in Schedule 12 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (taking control of goods) may be exercised, against the property by a person not seeking to enforce any interest in or security over the property, except with the consent of—\n(a) in the case of property provided as cover for margin or as default fund contribution, the recognised body in question, or\n(b) in the case of property subject to a market charge, the person in whose favour the charge was granted.\n(2) Where consent is given the proceedings may be commenced or continued notwithstanding any provision of the Insolvency Act 1986 or the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016.\n(3) Where by virtue of this section a person would not be entitled to enforce a judgment or order against any property, any injunction or other remedy granted with a view to facilitating the enforcement of any such judgment or order shall not extend to that property.\n(4) In the application of this section to Scotland, the reference to execution being commenced or continued includes a reference to diligence being carried out or continued, and the reference to distress being levied shall be omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 180(1) substituted (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), regs. 1, 3(22)(a) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 180(1) inserted (15.6.2009) by The Financial Markets and Insolvency Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/853), regs. 1(1), 2(14)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 180(1) inserted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 13 para. 91 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 180(1)(a) inserted (15.6.2009) by The Financial Markets and Insolvency Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/853), regs. 1(1), 2(14)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 180(1)(a) substituted (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), regs. 1, 3(22)(b) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 180(2) substituted (30.11.2016) by The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1034), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 6(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1985 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 180 applied (15.8.1995) by S.I. 1995/2049, reg. 25(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 180 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(7))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/40/section/180",
    "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."
}