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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-receipt-of-accounts-and-reports-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-receipt-of-accounts-and-reports-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1973",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Receipt of Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-receipt-of-accounts-and-reports-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Consultation by notice",
  "text": "(1) A consultation notice under this regulation is notice given by a company to a person specified in regulation 4 which—\n(a) states that for the future, so long as the person is a person so specified, the person will be sent a copy of the strategic report with supplementary material for each financial year instead of a copy of the company's full accounts and reports, unless the person notifies the company that the person wishes to receive full accounts and reports;\n(b) states that the card or form accompanying the notice in accordance with regulation 9(3) must be returned by a date specified in the notice, being a date at least 21 days after service of the notice and not less than 28 days before the first date on which copies of the full accounts and reports for the next financial year for which that person is entitled to receive them are sent out to persons specified in regulation 4 in accordance with section 423 of the 2006 Act;\n(c) includes a statement in a prominent position to the effect that the strategic report and supplementary material will not contain sufficient information to allow as full an understanding of the results and state of affairs of the company or group as would be provided by the full annual accounts and reports and that persons specified in regulation 4 requiring more detailed information have the right to obtain, free of charge, a copy of the company's last full accounts and reports.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1973/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:22.114793+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."
}