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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/46",
  "legislation_title": "Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the disqualification of persons from being directors of companies, and from being otherwise concerned with a company’s affairs.\n[25th July 1986]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (6.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1090, reg. 4(2), Sch. 2 Pt. IIAct applied (with modifications) (29.3.2009) by 1986 c. 53, s. 90E (as inserted by S.I. 2009/2142, art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 121, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 2 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 5(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 155, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 3 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 5(11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified by S.I. 1986/2142, arts. 1(2), 3Act modified (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 25, Sch. 4 para. 3Act modified (30.6.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1301), rule 334"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act modified (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 23 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 10(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (in part) by S.I. 1989/638, reg. 20 (as amended (1.10.2009) by The European Economic Interest Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399), reg. 21 (with reg. 2))Act applied (1.8.2007) by The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1949), reg. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (17.2.2009 for specified purposes and 21.2.2009 otherwise) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 158(2)(b), 159(2)(b), 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Act excluded (10.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3348), art. 217"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (31.7.2015) by The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1493), reg. 10 (with reg. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "Act modified (12.11.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1178), rules 2, 295"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "Act modified (S.) (19.12.2022) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Scotland) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1239), rules 2, 206"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "Act: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 11 para. 165; S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(ddd)(xiv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "Act applied (with modifications) (8.7.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/716), reg. 46, Sch. 1 para. 4 (with reg. 5, Sch. 2 paras. 3, 7) (as amended (4.1.2024) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C14",
      "text": "Act (except for ss. 13-15) extended (N.I.) for specified purposes (22.2.2024) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 13 para. 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 29.12.1986 by s. 25 and S.I. 1986/1924"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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