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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/10",
  "legislation_title": "Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Voting rights",
  "text": "(1) A reference to the voting rights in a legal entity is to the rights conferred on shareholders in respect of their shares (or, in the case of an entity not having a share capital, on members) to vote at general meetings of the entity on all or substantially all matters.\n(2) In relation to a legal entity that does not have general meetings at which matters are decided by the exercise of voting rights—\n(a) a reference to exercising voting rights in the entity is to be read as a reference to exercising rights in relation to the entity that are equivalent to those of a person entitled to exercise voting rights in a company registered under the Companies Act 2006;\n(b) a reference to exercising more than 25% of the voting rights in the entity is to be read as a reference to exercising the right under the constitution of the entity to block changes to the overall policy of the entity or to the terms of its constitution.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 69"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 in force at 1.8.2022 (except in so far as relating to ss. 7–11 of the Act) by S.I. 2022/876, reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 in force in so far as not already in force at 12.10.2022 by S.I. 2022/1039, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/10/schedule/2/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:22.170731+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."
}