{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Foreign Companies (Execution of Documents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foreign-companies-execution-of-documents-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Adaptation of Article 46A",
  "text": "Article 46A shall apply as if–\n(a) at the end of paragraph (2) there were inserted–\n“, or if it is executed in any manner permitted by the laws of the territory in which the company is incorporated for the execution of documents by such a company.”,\n(b) for paragraph (4) there were substituted–\n“(4) A document which–\n(a) is signed by a person or persons who, in accordance with the laws of the territory in which the company is incorporated, is or are acting under the authority (express or implied) of that company, and\n(b) is expressed (in whatever form of words) to be executed by the company,\nhas the same effect in relation to that company as it would have in relation to a company incorporated in Northern Ireland if executed under the common seal of a company so incorporated.”, and\n(c) in paragraph (6) for the words from “a director” to “directors of the company” there were substituted “a person or persons who, in accordance with the laws of the territory in which the company is incorporated, is or are acting under the authority (express or implied) of that company”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/5/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:20.712009+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."
}