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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-clauses-consolidation-act-1845/section-77",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/8-9/16",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845",
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  "path": "section/77",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Regulations as to proxies.",
  "text": "No person shall be entitled to vote as a proxy unless the instrument appointing such proxy have been transmitted to the secretary of the company the prescribed period, or, if no period be prescribed, not less than forty-eight hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting at which such proxy is to be used.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/16/section/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:21.564980+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."
}