{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-public-limited-liability-company-regulations-2004/regulation-88.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/88",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Effect of registration",
  "text": "(1) In its application to a converting UK Societas on or after registration the Companies Acts shall have effect with the modifications set out in paragraphs 2 to 9 of Schedule 4 to these Regulations.\n(2) On and after registration a converting UK Societas shall be known by the name contained in the certificate given under regulation 87(3) (subject to any change of name by the converting UK Societas).\n(3) The persons named in the application for registration shall be deemed to have been appointed as the first directors or secretaries of a converting UK Societas on registration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 43 (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. 88(1) 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(7) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 35(2) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 35(3)(a) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 35(3)(b) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 88(3) substituted (1.10.2014) by The European Economic Interest Grouping and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2382), regs. 1, 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2326/regulation/88",
    "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."
}