{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-model-articles-regulations-2008/schedule-1/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-model-articles-regulations-2008/schedule-1/paragraph-40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3229",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Model Articles) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-model-articles-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Attendance and speaking by directors and non-shareholders",
  "text": "(1) Directors may attend and speak at general meetings, whether or not they are shareholders.\n(2) The chairman of the meeting may permit other persons who are not—\n(a) shareholders of the company, or\n(b) otherwise entitled to exercise the rights of shareholders in relation to general meetings,\nto attend and speak at a general meeting.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 art. 40 in force at 1.10.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3229/schedule/1/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:04.243060+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."
}