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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-commencement-no-2-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-27",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110757711",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007",
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  "number": "27",
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  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the 1985 Act” insert—\n““the 1986 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;”;\n(b) in the definition of “asset-locked body”—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “charity or Scottish charity” substitute “or a charity”, and\n(ii) in paragraph (b), for “Great Britain” substitute “the United Kingdom” and for “any of those persons” substitute “either of those”;\n(c) in the definition of “distributable profits”, after “section 263(3) of the 1985 Act” insert “or Article 271(3) of the 1986 Order”;\n(d) in the definition of “election” for “Great Britain” substitute “the United Kingdom”;\n(e) in the definition of “governmental authority”, in paragraph (a) for “Great Britain” substitute “the United Kingdom”;\n(f) in the definition of “political campaigning organisation”, in paragraph (a) for “Great Britain” substitute “the United Kingdom”;\n(g) in the definition of “subsidiary”, after “section 736 of the 1985 Act” insert “or Article 4 of the 1986 Order”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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