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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2860",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1985 Act” means the Companies Act 1985;\n“the 1986 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;\n“existing company” means a company that immediately before 1st October 2009 was formed and registered under the 1985 Act or the 1986 Order or was an existing company for the purposes of that Act or Order;\n“transitional company” means a company that is formed and registered, or re-registered, under the 1985 Act or the 1986 Order on or after 1st October 2009 by virtue of paragraph 2(3) or 22(3) of Schedule 2 to this Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.10.2009, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2860/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:26.884389+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."
}