{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Electronic statement of compliance with incorporation requirements",
  "text": "(1) Section 12 of the 1985 Act (duty of registrar) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3), for the words “A statutory declaration” substitute the words “Subject to subsection (3A), a statutory declaration”.\n(3) Insert the following subsections after subsection (3)—\n“(3A) In place of the statutory declaration referred to in subsection (3), there may be delivered to the registrar of companies using electronic communications a statement made by a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3) that the requirements mentioned in subsection (1) have been complied with; and the registrar may accept such a statement as sufficient evidence of compliance.\n(3B) 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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110186745/article/4",
    "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."
}