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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-265",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111481035",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2009",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/265",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "265",
  "heading": "Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 20)",
  "text": "(1) The Serious Crime Act 2007 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 27(12) (power to wind up companies etc: England and Wales and Scotland)—\n(a) for the definition of “company” substitute—\n““company” means—\n(a) a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales or Scotland, or\n(b) an unregistered company within the meaning of Part 5 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (see section 220 of that Act),\nbut does not include a relevant body;;”;\n(b) for the definition of “the court” substitute—\n““the court”, in relation to a company, means a court in England and Wales or Scotland having jurisdiction to wind up the company;”.\n(3) In section 28(11) (power to wind up companies etc: Northern Ireland), for the definition of “company” substitute—\n““company” means—\n(a) a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in Northern Ireland, or\n(b) an unregistered company within the meaning of Part 6 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (see Article 184 of that Order),\nbut does not include a relevant body;.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111481035/schedule/1/paragraph/265",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:01.479631+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."
}