{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1886",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation of provisions brought into force",
  "text": "Where an expression in a provision brought into force by this Order—\n(a) is defined in the Companies Act 1985 or in the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (“the old definition”), and\n(b) is defined in the Companies Act 2006 by another provision not yet in force for the purposes of the provision brought into force (“the new definition”),\nthe expression has, for the purposes of the provision brought into force the meaning given by the old definition until the new definition is brought into force for the purposes of that provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1886/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:27:24.978088+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."
}