{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-152",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-152.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/152",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "152",
  "heading": "Exercise of rights where shares held on behalf of others: exercise in different ways",
  "text": "(1) Where a member holds shares in a company on behalf of more than one person—\n(a) rights attached to the shares, and\n(b) rights under any enactment exercisable by virtue of holding the shares,\nneed not all be exercised, and if exercised, need not all be exercised in the same way.\n(2) A member who exercises such rights but does not exercise all his rights, must inform the company to what extent he is exercising the rights.\n(3) A member who exercises such rights in different ways must inform the company of the ways in which he is exercising them and to what extent they are exercised in each way.\n(4) If a member exercises such rights without informing the company—\n(a) that he is not exercising all his rights, or\n(b) that he is exercising his rights in different ways,\nthe company is entitled to assume that he is exercising all his rights and is exercising them in the same way.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 152 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 152 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 152 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(c) (with savings in art. 12 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 3 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/152",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+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."
}