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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-mergers-and-divisions-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1991",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-mergers-and-divisions-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COMPANIES\nMade 23rd November 1987\nComing into force 1st January 1988\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by each House of Parliament in pursuance of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972.\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act in relation to matters relating to mergers and divisions involving public companies, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section hereby makes the following Regulations—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/749."
    }
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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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