{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disqualification-orders-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disqualification-orders-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2471",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Disqualification Orders) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disqualification-orders-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986;\n“disqualification order” means an order of the court under any of sections 2 to 6, 8, 9A and 10 of the Act;\n“disqualification undertaking” means an undertaking accepted by the Secretary of State under section 7, 8 or 9B of the Act;\n“grant of leave” means a grant by the court of leave under section 17 of the Act to any person in relation to a disqualification order or a disqualification undertaking.\n(2) For the purposes of regulations 5 and 9, “leave granted”—\n(a) in relation to a disqualification order granted under Part 2 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 means leave granted by a court for a person subject to such an order to do anything which otherwise the order prohibits that person from doing; and\n(b) in relation to a disqualification undertaking accepted under the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 means leave granted by a court for a person subject to such an undertaking to do anything which otherwise the undertaking prohibits that person from doing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2404 (N.I. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3150 (N.I. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1651",
      "affecting_title": "The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) (Insolvency and Company Directors Disqualification) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/1651",
      "affecting_title": "The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) (Insolvency and Company Directors Disqualification) Regulations 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2471/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:05:45.255495+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."
}