{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-the-registration-of-companies-order-1995/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-the-registration-of-companies-order-1995/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1013",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the Registration of Companies) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-the-registration-of-companies-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Companies Act 1985;\n“the Regulations” mean the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations 1989; and\n“EEIG establishment” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Regulations;\n“UKEIG” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Regulations\n(2) Any expression used in the Act, if used in this Order, bears the same meaning as it bears in the Act unless the context otherwise requires.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 64(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 64(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 5.4.1995, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/638."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1013/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:17.978026+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."
}