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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3428",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-1-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Existing agreements to communication by electronic means",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where an address has been notified by a person to a company for the purposes of—\n(a) section 238(4A) or 239(2A) of the 1985 Act or Article 246(4A) or 247(2A) of the 1986 Order (sending or supply of accounts and reports by means of electronic communications);\n(b) section 251(2A) of the 1985 Act or Article 259(2A) of the 1986 Order (sending of summary financial statement by means of electronic communications); or\n(c) section 369(4A) or 379A(2B) of the 1985 Act or Article 377(5) or 387A(2B) of the 1986 Order (notice of meeting given by means of electronic communications).\n(2) Any such notification that is in force immediately before 20th January 2007 shall have effect on and after that date, in relation to the matters to which it relates, as an agreement under paragraph 6(a) of Schedule 5 to the Companies Act 2006 (agreement to accept documents or information in electronic form) and as an address specified under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 5 to that Act (address for communications in electronic form).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 4 in force at 20.1.2007, see art. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3428/schedule/5/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:10:10.535881+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."
}