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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-interconnection-of-registers-order-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1557",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Interconnection of Registers) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-interconnection-of-registers-order-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Companies\nMade 11th June 2014\nLaid before Parliament 16th June 2014\nComing into force 7th July 2014\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the creation, operation, regulation or dissolution of companies and other forms of business organisation.\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 of the European Communities Act 1972, makes the following Order.\nThis Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for certain references to provisions of EU instruments to be construed as a reference to those provisions as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/193."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    }
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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."
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