{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-81.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/81",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "The UK Societas as a body corporate",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) any enactment is applied in the manner described in regulation 78(2); or\n(b) any enactment applies to a UK Societas otherwise than in the manner described in regulation 78(2)\nand those enactments are expressed to apply to, or in respect of, a body corporate, a UK Societas, ... shall be treated for the purposes of the application of those enactments as if it were a body corporate.\n(2) Nothing in this regulation has the effect of constituting a UK Societas as a body corporate incorporated in, or formed under the law of, the United Kingdom (or any part of the United Kingdom).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 34(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": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(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, 34(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": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 34(c) (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": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 29(b) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 81 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 34(a) (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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2326/regulation/81",
    "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."
}