{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-998",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-998.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/998",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "998",
  "heading": "Copy of order affecting company's constitution to be delivered to registrar",
  "text": "(1) Where an order of the court under this Part—\n(a) alters the company's constitution, or\n(b) gives leave for the company to make any, or any specified, alterations to its constitution,\nthe company must deliver a copy of the order to the registrar.\n(2) It must do so within 14 days from the making of the order or such longer period as the court may allow.\n(3) If a company makes default in complying with this section, an offence is committed by—\n(a) the company, and\n(b) every officer of the company who is in default.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 998 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 998 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 998 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(j) (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/998",
    "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."
}