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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-overseas-branch-registers-hong-kong-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1313",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Overseas Branch Registers (Hong Kong) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-overseas-branch-registers-hong-kong-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the list of countries and territories in Part I of Schedule 14 to the Companies Act 1985 (which specifies the countries and territories in which an overseas branch register may be kept) and in the corresponding list in Part I of Schedule 14 to the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (corresponding provision for Northern Ireland) there shall be inserted at the appropriate place in alphabetical order in each the following entry:\n“The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1313/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:08:32.104238+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."
}