{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-204",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-204.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/204",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "204",
  "heading": "Exception for expenditure on company business",
  "text": "(1) Approval is not required under section 197, 198, 200 or 201 (requirement of members' approval for loans etc) for anything done by a company—\n(a) to provide a director of the company or of its holding company, or a person connected with any such director, with funds to meet expenditure incurred or to be incurred by him—\n(i) for the purposes of the company, or\n(ii) for the purpose of enabling him properly to perform his duties as an officer of the company, or\n(b) to enable any such person to avoid incurring such expenditure.\n(2) This section does not authorise a company to enter into a transaction if the aggregate of—\n(a) the value of the transaction in question, and\n(b) the value of any other relevant transactions or arrangements,\nexceeds £50,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (retrospective to 30.3.2009 at 8.00 a.m.) by The Amendments to Law (Resolution of Dunfermline Building Society) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/814), arts. 1(2), 7, Sch. para. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (1.3.2016) by The NRAM plc (formerly Northern Rock plc) Consequential and Supplementary Provisions Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/114), arts. 1(1), 7(1), (3), Sch. para. 1(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (16.7.2026) by The Modification of the Law (British Steel Limited Property Transfer) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/833), regs. 1(2), 6(2), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (22.2.2008) by The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/432), art. 17(1), Sch. para. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (8.00 a.m. on 29.9.2008) by the The Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc. Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2546), art. 13(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 197-214 modified (9.30 a.m. on 7.10.2008) by The Heritable Bank plc Transfer of Certain Rights and Liabilities Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2644), art. 26, Sch. 2 para. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 204 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 204 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 204 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(d) (with saving in art. 12 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/204",
    "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."
}