{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/27",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Dissolution and striking off",
  "text": "(1) If a community interest company has been—\n(a) dissolved, or\n(b) struck off the register under section 1000 or 1001 of the Companies Act 2006,\nthe Regulator may apply to the court under section 1029 of that Act for an order restoring the company’s name to the register.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) If an application under section 1003 of the Companies Act 2006 (striking off on application by company) is made on behalf of a community interest company, section 1006 of the Companies Act 2006 (persons to be notified of application) is to be treated as also requiring a copy of the application to be given to the Regulator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 51(1) substituted for s. 51(1)(2) (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 234(2) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(3) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 234(3)(a) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(3) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 234(3)(b) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 51 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2004/3322, art. 2(3), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/27/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:59.566027+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."
}