{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-159A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-159A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1298",
  "legislation_title": "The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/159A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "159A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Despite the amendments and revocations made by these Regulations, paragraph 5(1) of the Schedule to the pre-exit 2009 NI Regulations applies to a UK Societas whose representative body was established less than four years before IP completion day.\n(2) Where paragraph 5(1) applies—\n(a) regulations 14 to 16 and 18 of the pre-exit 2009 NI Regulations apply, to the representative body as they apply to the special negotiating body, and the date referred to in regulation 14(3) is the date of the decision;\n(b) Parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule to the pre-exit 2009 NI Regulations apply, where appropriate, and\n(c) the following modifications to the pre-exit 2009 NI Regulations have effect—\n(i) references to “EEA State” are to be read as though they were references to “Relevant State”;\n(ii) references to “SE” are to be read as if they were references to “UK Societas”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 159A inserted (31.12.2020) by The International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/685), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 17 (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 26(d)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1298/regulation/159A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:03.004131+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."
}