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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-reporting-requirements-in-mergers-and-divisions-regulations-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1606",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Reporting Requirements in Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-reporting-requirements-in-mergers-and-divisions-regulations-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Companies\nMade 25th June 2011\nLaid before Parliament 1st July 2011\nComing into force 1st August 2011\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the creation, operation, regulation or dissolution of companies and other forms of business organisation .\nIn exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/193."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1606/introduction",
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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."
}