{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2326",
  "legislation_title": "The European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthe “1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996 ;\nthe “2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;\n“the Companies Acts” has the meaning given by section 2 of the 2006 Act;\n“SE” means a European Public Limited-Liability Company (or Societas Europaea) within the meaning of the EC Regulation , as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, and, except as provided in these Regulations, means an SE ... registered in the United Kingdom.\n“UK Societas” means an SE on or after IP completion day.\n(2) Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, words and expressions defined for the purposes of the Companies Acts have the same meaning in these Regulations.\n(3) Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, words and expressions which are used in the EC Regulation ... have the same meaning as they have in that Regulation....\n(4) Where a word or expression is both defined as mentioned in paragraph (2) and used in the EC Regulation ..., it has the meaning it has in that Regulation ... except as otherwise provided in these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (1.10.2009) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 5(a) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 5(b) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 235(2)(a) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 5(c) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(a)(i)(aa) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 3(a), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(a)(i)(bb) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 5(d) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(a)(ii) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 3(a), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 235(2)(b) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(b)(i) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(b)(ii) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 235(2)(c) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(b)(i) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 4(b)(ii) (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2326/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:03.778295+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."
}