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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111507865",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011",
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  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Old public company holding, or having charge on, own shares",
  "text": "(1) In sections 662 to 669 of the Companies Act 2006 (treatment of shares held by or for public company) references to a public company do not include an old public company.\n(2) Section 668 of that Act (application of sections 662 to 667 to private company re-registering as public company) applies to an old public company as to a private company.\n(3) In the case of a company that—\n(a) after 22nd March 1982 remained an old public company, and\n(b) did not before that date apply to be re-registered as a public company,\nany charge on its own shares which was in existence on or immediately before that date is a permitted charge and not void under section 670 of the Companies Act 2006.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:53:51.054444+00:00"
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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."
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