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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000/article-26",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110186745",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 1985 (Electronic Communications) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Electronic statement concerning establishment of place of business in Great Britain",
  "text": "(1) Section 691 of the 1985 Act (documents to be delivered to registrar) is amended as follows.\n(2) At the beginning of sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), insert the words “subject to subsection (3A),”.\n(3) Insert the following subsection after subsection (3)—\n“(3A) In place of the statutory declaration referred to in sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), there may be delivered to the registrar of companies using electronic communications a statement made by any person by whom the declaration could have been made stating the date on which the company’s place of business in Great Britain was established.”\n(4) Insert the following subsection after subsection (4)—\n“(4A) Any person who makes a false statement under subsection (3A) which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true is liable to imprisonment or a fine, or both.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 691 was amended by section 145 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 19 to, the Companies Act 1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110186745/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:27.981619+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."
}