{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3495",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Company secretaries (ss.270 to 274 and 280)",
  "text": "(1) A private company whose articles immediately before 6th April 2008 expressly required it to have a secretary is a company “with a secretary” for the purposes of section 270(2) until its articles are amended to remove the requirement.\n(2) For this purpose a provision—\n(a) requiring or authorising things to be done by or in relation to a secretary, or\n(b) as to the manner in which, or terms on which, a secretary is to be appointed or removed,\nis not a provision expressly requiring the company to have a secretary.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 4 in force at 6.4.2008, see art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3495/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:39:26.398796+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."
}