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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-tables-a-to-f-regulations-1985/schedule/part-1/paragraph-73",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/805",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Tables A to F) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-tables-a-to-f-regulations-1985",
  "path": "schedule/part/1/paragraph/73",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "At the first annual general meeting all the directors shall retire from office, and at every subsequent annual general meeting one-third of the directors who are subject to retirement by rotation or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, the number nearest to one-third shall retire from office; but, if there is only one director who is subject to retirement by rotation, he shall retire.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. Table A regs. 73-75 cease to have effect (1.10.2007 but only so far as it relates to private companies limited by shares) by virtue of The Companies (Tables A to F) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2541), regs. 1, 13 (with reg. 8)"
    }
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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."
}