{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-53.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/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Ceasing to be a community interest company",
  "text": "A community interest company may not cease to be a community interest company except by dissolution or as provided—\n(a) by sections 54 to 55A (becoming a charity ...), or\n(b) if regulations are made under section 56 (becoming a registered society ), by the regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 53(a) 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. 236 (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 53(a) repealed (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 234(5), Sch. 2 (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 53(b) substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 89 (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 53-55 power to apply or disapply conferred by 1993 c. 10, s. 69J (as inserted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 7 para. 1; S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 53-55 power to apply (with modifications) or disapply conferred (E.W.) (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), ss. 234(2)(a), 355 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 53-55A excluded (E.W.) (1.1.2018) by The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Conversion) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1232), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2004/3322, art. 2(3), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "power to apply or disapply conferred",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/12",
      "affecting_title": "Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/27/section/53",
    "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."
}