{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-investment-advertisements-exemptions-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-investment-advertisements-exemptions-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services Act 1986 (Investment Advertisements) (Exemptions) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-investment-advertisements-exemptions-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order and in the Schedule hereto—\n“the Act” means the Financial Services Act 1986;\n“the 1985 Act” means the Companies Act 1985;\n“the 1986 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; and\n“private company”, in relation to a body corporate which is a company within the meaning of the 1985 Act, means a private company within the meaning of section 1(3) of the 1985 Act and, in relation to a body corporate which is a company within the meaning of the 1986 Order, means a private company within the meaning of article 12(3) of the 1986 Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I.6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/316/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:11.377876+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."
}