{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-3-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-3-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-3/paragraph-23A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2194",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-3-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where, immediately before 1st October 2007, the articles of a company provided that in the event of equality of votes on an ordinary resolution, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman should have a casting vote in addition to any other vote that the chairman might have.\n(2) If that provision has not been removed by a subsequent alteration of the articles, it continues to have effect notwithstanding sections 281(3) and 282.\n(3) If that provision has been removed by a subsequent alteration of the articles, the company may at any time restore that provision, which shall have effect notwithstanding sections 281(3) and 282.\n(4) Nothing in this paragraph applies in relation to a traded company (as defined by section 360C of the Companies Act 2006).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 23A inserted (14.1.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/3495), art. 2(6)(b), Sch. 5 para. 2(5) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 23A(4) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders’ Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), regs. 1(2), 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2194/schedule/3/paragraph/23A",
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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."
}