{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-227",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-227.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/227",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "227",
  "heading": "Directors' service contracts",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part a director's “service contract”, in relation to a company, means a contract under which—\n(a) a director of the company undertakes personally to perform services (as director or otherwise) for the company, or for a subsidiary of the company, or\n(b) services (as director or otherwise) that a director of the company undertakes personally to perform are made available by a third party to the company, or to a subsidiary of the company.\n(2) The provisions of this Part relating to directors' service contracts apply to the terms of a person's appointment as a director of a company.\nThey are not restricted to contracts for the performance of services outside the scope of the ordinary duties of a director.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 227-230 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(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 227-229 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(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 227-229 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. 227-230 modified (22.2.2008) by The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/432), art. 17(1), Sch. para. 2(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 227-230 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(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 227-230 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(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/227",
    "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."
}