{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/46",
  "legislation_title": "Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Participation in wrongful trading.",
  "text": "(1) Where the court makes a declaration under section 213 or 214 of the Insolvency Act 1986 that a person is liable to make a contribution to a company’s assets, then, whether or not an application for such an order is made by any person, the court may, if it thinks fit, also make a disqualification order against the person to whom the declaration relates.\n(2) The maximum period of disqualification under this section is 15 years.\n(3) In this section “company” includes overseas company.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(1) inserted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 85(6)(a) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 10(3) inserted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 7 para. 11; S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(c); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 9, 10 extended (with modifications) (1.7.1989) by S.I. 1989/638, regs. 20, 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 10 applied (1.12.1994) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 16, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 6-10 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 16, Sch. 8 (as amended (E.W.) (8.12.2017) by The Insolvency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1119), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 paras. 4, 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 9, 10 extended (with modifications) by S.I. 1986/2142, art. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/46/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:56.770430+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."
}