{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-risk-transformation-regulations-2017/regulation-140",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-risk-transformation-regulations-2017/regulation-140.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111160596",
  "legislation_title": "The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-risk-transformation-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/140",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Notice required of meeting",
  "text": "(1) A general meeting must be called by notice of at least 14 days.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where—\n(a) the protected cell company’s instrument of incorporation requires a longer period; or\n(b) the meeting is an adjourned meeting.\n(3) Notice must be sent to—\n(a) every shareholder who is entitled to vote at the meeting;\n(b) any person who is entitled to a voting share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of the person holding the voting share, provided the protected cell company has been notified of such an entitlement; and\n(c) every director.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3), the reference to bankruptcy includes—\n(a) the sequestration of the estate of a person; or\n(b) a person’s estate being the subject of a protected trust deed (within the meaning of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016).\n(5) Paragraph (3) has effect subject to—\n(a) any enactment; or\n(b) any provision of the protected cell company’s instrument of incorporation.\n(6) The notice must state—\n(a) the time and date of the meeting;\n(b) the place of the meeting; and\n(c) the general nature of the business to be dealt with at the meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111160596/regulation/140",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:04.488256+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."
}