{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-2157/article-AAA1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-2157/article-AAA1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2001/2157",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European company (SE)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-2157",
  "path": "article/AAA1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "AAA1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1.) The UK Societas retains the legal personality it had when it was an SE.\n(2.) Save as regards any rights or obligations which are no longer applicable to a UK Societas as a result of the European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018, the conversion of an SE to a UK Societas—\n(a) does not affect any rights or obligations of the UK Societas, or render defective any legal proceedings by or against it; and\n(b) any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced against it when it was an SE may be continued or commenced against it as a UK Societas.\n(3.) The records of an SE relating to any period before it became a UK Societas, in accordance with this Regulation, shall be treated for the purposes of this Regulation, the Companies Acts and the 2004 Regulations as if they were records of that UK Societas.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. A1-AAA1 inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 4(a), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/2157/article/AAA1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:44.727552+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."
}