{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-9E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-9E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/46",
  "legislation_title": "Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
  "path": "section/9E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9E",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of sections 9A to 9D.\n(2) Each of the following is a specified regulator for the purposes of a breach of competition law in relation to a matter in respect of which he or it has a function—\n(a) the Office of Communications;\n(b) the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority;\n(c) the Water Services Regulation Authority;\n(d) Office of Rail and Road;\n(e) the Civil Aviation Authority;\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(g) the Payment Systems Regulator established under section 40 of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013.\n(h) the Financial Conduct Authority.\n(3) The court is the High Court or (in Scotland) the Court of Session.\n(4) Conduct includes omission.\n(5) Director includes shadow director.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 9A-9E and cross-heading inserted (20.6.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 204(2), 279; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9E(2)(a) substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 406(1), 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 83 (with transitional provisions in Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 9E(2)(c) substituted (1.4.2006) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 101(1), 105(3), Sch. 7 para. 25; S.I. 2005/2714, art. 4(f) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 9E(2)(d) substituted (16.10.2015) by The Office of Rail Regulation (Change of Name) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1682), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 9E(2)(f) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 12 para. 1; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 9E(2)(g) inserted (1.4.2015) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 67(1), 148(5); S.I. 2014/2458, art. 3(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 9E(2)(h) inserted (1.4.2015) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), s. 148(5), Sch. 8 para. 8; S.I. 2014/2458, art. 3(b)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/46/section/9E",
    "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."
}