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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-act-2006-consequential-amendments-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2009/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111481035",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009",
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  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Old public company becoming private: statutory declaration",
  "text": "(1) If an old public company delivers to the registrar a statutory declaration by a director or secretary of the company that the company does not at the time of the declaration satisfy the conditions for the company to be re-registered as public, the registrar shall issue the company with a certificate stating that it is a private company.\n(2) The company then becomes a private company by virtue of the issue of the certificate.\n(3) A certificate issued to a company under sub-paragraph (1) is conclusive evidence that the requirements of this paragraph have been complied with and that the company is a private company.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111481035/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "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."
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