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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dormant-bank-and-building-society-accounts-act-2008-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/490",
  "legislation_title": "The Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dormant-bank-and-building-society-accounts-act-2008-commencement-and-transitional-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Until section 1 of the Companies Act 2006 (companies) comes into force, “company” in section 5 of the 2008 Act (functions etc of a reclaim fund) has the meaning given, as respects England and Wales and Scotland, by section 735(1) of the Companies Act 1985 (“company”, etc) and, as respects Northern Ireland, by article 3 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.\n(2) Until section 31 of the Companies Act 2006 (statement of company’s objects) comes into force, references in section 5 of, and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 (provision to be made in articles of association of reclaim fund) to, the 2008 Act to articles of association are to be read as references to memorandum of association.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 No.1032 (N.I.6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/490/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}