{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1987/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1987/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/41",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Power to petition for winding up etc. on information obtained under section 52.",
  "text": "The words “or section 52 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987” shall be inserted—\n(a) in section 440 of the Companies Act 1985, after the words “that Act”;\n(b) in section 8(1) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, after the words “the Financial Services Act 1986”, in the second place where they occur; and\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 55(a) repealed (prosp.) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 212, 215, Sch. 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 55(c) repealed (N.I.)(01.10.1991) by S.I. 1990/1504 (N.I. 10), art. 113, Sch. 6; S.R. 1991/438, art.5 (c)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "S. 55(a)(b) extends to England and Wales and Scotland see s. 72(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/41/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:29.996796+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."
}