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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COMPANIES\nMade 5th March 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 224(2), 225(1) and (2), 701 and 744 of the Companies Act 1985 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6. Sections 224 and 225 were substituted by section 3 of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40) and prospectively amended by regulations 2 and 3 of S.I. 1996/189. Section 701 was substituted by section 23 of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 10 to, the Companies Act 1989. See the definition of “prescribed” in section 744 of the Companies Act 1985."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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