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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-act-1908/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/8/69",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-act-1908",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The directors may decline to register any transfer of shares, not being fully paid shares, to a person of whom they do not approve, and may also decline to register any transfer of shares on which the company has a lien. The directors may also suspend the registration of transfers during the fourteen days immediately preceding the ordinary general meeting in each year. The directors may decline to recognise any instrument of transfer unless—\n(a) a fee not exceeding two shillings and sixpence is paid to the company in respect thereof, and\n(b) the instrument of transfer is accompanied by the certificate of the shares to which it relates, and such other evidence as the directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/69/schedule/FIRST/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:55.325260+00:00"
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  "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."
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