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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2008/schedule-2/paragraph-40",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Power to make provision for employees on cessation or transfer of business (s. 247)",
  "text": "(1) Section 247 of the Companies Act 2006 (power to make provision for employees on cessation or transfer of business) applies to provision made on or after 1st October 2009 (subject to sub-paragraph (2)(b)).\n(2) Section 719 of the 1985 Act or Article 668 of the 1986 Order continues to apply—\n(a) to provision made before that date, and\n(b) to anything sanctioned in accordance with subsection (3) of that section or paragraph (3) of that Article before that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 40 in force at 1.10.2009, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2860/schedule/2/paragraph/40",
    "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."
}