{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-1985-electronic-communications-order-2000/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Electronic statement concerning limited company becoming unlimited",
  "text": "(1) Section 49 of the 1985 Act (re-registration of limited company as unlimited) is amended as follows.\n(2) At the beginning of paragraph (b) of subsection (8), insert the words “subject to subsection (8A),”.\n(3) Insert the following subsections after subsection (8)—\n“(8A) In place of the lodging of a statutory declaration under paragraph (b) of subsection (8), there may be delivered to the registrar of companies using electronic communications a statement made by the directors of the company as to the matters set out in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of that paragraph.\n(8B) Any person who makes a false statement under subsection (8A) 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/8",
    "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."
}