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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-order-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111507865",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Old public companies: trading under misleading name",
  "text": "(1) An old public company commits an offence if it carries on a trade, profession or business under a name that includes, as its last part, the words “public limited company” or “cwmni cyfyngedig cyhoeddus”.\n(2) Where an offence under this paragraph is committed by a company, an offence is also committed by every officer of the company who is in default.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2011/9780111507865/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:53:51.054444+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."
}