{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-economic-interest-grouping-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-economic-interest-grouping-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/638",
  "legislation_title": "The European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-economic-interest-grouping-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Winding up and conclusion of liquidation (Articles 35 and 36 of the EC Regulation)",
  "text": "(1) Where a UKEIG is wound up as an unregistered company under Part V of the Insolvency Act 1986, the provisions of Part V shall apply in relation to the UKEIG as if any reference in that Act ... to a director or past director of a company included a reference to a manager of the UKEIG and any other person who has or has had control or management of the UKEIG's business and with the modification that in section 221(1) after the words “all the provisions” there shall be added the words “of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2137/85 and”.\n(1A) Where a UKEIG is wound up as an unregistered company under Part 6 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, the provisions of Part 6 shall apply in relation to the UKEIG as if—\n(a) any reference in that Order to a director or past director of a company included a reference to a manager of the UKEIG and any other person who has or has had control or management of the UKEIG's business; and\n(b) in Article 185(1) after “all the provisions” there were inserted “of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/85 and”.\n(2) At the end of the period of three months beginning with the day of receipt by the registrar of a notice of the conclusion of the liquidation of a UKEIG, the UKEIG shall be dissolved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 8(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 8(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) omitted (6.4.2008) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 162 (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 8(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1A) inserted (1.10.2009) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399), regs. 1(2), 11 (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 1.7.1989, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/638/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:41.240935+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."
}