{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-862",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-862.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/862",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "862",
  "heading": "Charges existing on property acquired",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a company acquires property which is subject to a charge of a kind which would, if it had been created by the company after the acquisition of the property, have been required to be registered under this Chapter.\n(2) The company must deliver the prescribed particulars of the charge, together with a certified copy of the instrument (if any) by which the charge is created or evidenced, to the registrar for registration.\n(3) Subsection (2) must be complied with before the end of the period allowed for registration.\n(4) If default is made in complying with this section, an offence is committed by—\n(a) the company, and\n(b) every officer of it who is in default.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine;\n(b) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 860-862 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 32 (with Sch. 1 paras. 16. 17, 34, 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 862 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 862 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 862 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 862 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(n) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/862",
    "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."
}