{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Shares of old public company held by itself; charges on own shares",
  "text": "(1) The following has effect notwithstanding Article 3(2).\n(2) References to a public company in Articles 156 to 159 of the principal Order (treatment of a company's shares when acquired by itself) do not include an old public company; and references in those Articles to a private company are to be read accordingly.\n(3) In the case of a company which after 30th September 1984 remained an old public company and did not on or before that date apply to be re-registered under Article 10 of the Order of 1981 as a public company, any charge on its own shares which was in existence on or immediately before that date is a permitted charge for the purposes of Chapter V of Part VI of the principal Order and accordingly not void under Article 160 of that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1035/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:26.034334+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."
}