# The Companies (Political Expenditure Exemption) Order 2007, Article 4: Description of company


(1) This article applies to any company whose ordinary course of business includes, or is proposed to include, the publication or dissemination to the public or any part of the public, of news material, or the preparation of such material for publication or dissemination to the public or any part of the public.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), it is to be irrelevant—
(a) by which means or modes the news material is to be prepared, published or disseminated;
(b) where the public or part of it to which such material is published or disseminated is located; or
(c) how the public or part of it to which such material is published or disseminated is identified or described.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110771564/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-companies-political-expenditure-exemption-order-2007/article-4
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