{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/950",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Companies (Execution of Documents) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, made under section 130(6) of the Companies Act 1989, apply the following provisions of the Companies Act 1985 to companies incorporated outside Great Britain, with the adaptations and modifications set out in regulations 3 to 6—\n(a) section 36 (company contracts: England and Wales),\n(b) section 36A (execution of documents: England and Wales),\n(c) section 36B (execution of documents: Scotland), and\n(d) section 36C (pre-incorporation contracts, deeds and obligations).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/950/note",
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  },
  "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."
}