{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/21",
  "legislation_title": "Football Governance Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Shares or rights held “indirectly”",
  "text": "(1) A person (“A”) holds a share “indirectly” if A has a majority stake in a person (“B”) and B—\n(a) holds the share, or\n(b) is part of a chain of persons—\n(i) each of which (other than the last) has a majority stake in the person immediately below it in the chain, and\n(ii) the last of which holds the share.\n(2) A person (“A”) holds a right “indirectly” if A has a majority stake in a person (“B”) and B—\n(a) holds that right, or\n(b) is part of a chain of persons—\n(i) each of which (other than the last) has a majority stake in the person immediately below it in the chain, and\n(ii) the last of which holds that right.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), A has a “majority stake” in B if A—\n(a) holds a majority of the voting rights in B,\n(b) is a member of B and has the right to appoint or remove an officer of B,\n(c) is a member of B and controls alone, or pursuant to an agreement with other shareholders or members, a majority of the voting rights in B, or\n(d) has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, dominant influence or control over B.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 9 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 100(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/1/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:55.233089+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."
}