{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-political-expenditure-exemption-order-2007/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-political-expenditure-exemption-order-2007/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2081",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Political Expenditure Exemption) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-political-expenditure-exemption-order-2007",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Description of company",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any company whose ordinary course of business includes, or is proposed to include, the publication or dissemination to the public, or any part of the public, of news material, or the preparation of such material for publication or dissemination to the public, or any part of the public.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), it is to be irrelevant—\n(a) by which means or modes the news material is to be prepared, published or disseminated; or\n(b) where the public, or any part of the public, to which such material is published or disseminated is located or the identity or description of the public or any part of it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2081/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:48:07.735381+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."
}