{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-252",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-252.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/252",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "252",
  "heading": "Persons connected with a director",
  "text": "(1) This section defines what is meant by references in this Part to a person being “connected” with a director of a company (or a director being “connected” with a person).\n(2) The following persons (and only those persons) are connected with a director of a company—\n(a) members of the director's family (see section 253);\n(b) a body corporate with which the director is connected (as defined in section 254);\n(c) a person acting in his capacity as trustee of a trust—\n(i) the beneficiaries of which include the director or a person who by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) is connected with him, or\n(ii) the terms of which confer a power on the trustees that may be exercised for the benefit of the director or any such person,\nother than a trust for the purposes of an employees' share scheme or a pension scheme;\n(d) a person acting in his capacity as partner—\n(i) of the director, or\n(ii) of a person who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c), is connected with that director;\n(e) a firm that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed and in which—\n(i) the director is a partner,\n(ii) a partner is a person who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) is connected with the director, or\n(iii) a partner is a firm in which the director is a partner or in which there is a partner who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c), is connected with the director.\n(3) References in this Part to a person connected with a director of a company do not include a person who is himself a director of the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 252 applied (26.7.2007) by Pensions Act 2007 (c. 22), ss. 20, 30(1)(c), Sch. 6 para. 13(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 252 applied (5.7.2010) by Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30), ss. 75, 149, Sch. 1 para. 13(6); S.I. 2010/10, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 252-255 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), ss. 49(5), 154 (with Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/252",
    "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."
}