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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forged-transfers-act-1892/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/55-56/36",
  "legislation_title": "Forged Transfers Act 1892",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forged-transfers-act-1892",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision where one company takes over shares, &c. of another company.",
  "text": "Where the shares, stock, or securities of a company or local authority have by amalgamation or otherwise become the shares, stock, or securities of another company or local authority, the last-mentioned company and authority shall have the same power under the Forged Transfers Act 1891, and this Act, as the original company or authority would have had if it had continued.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1891 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/55-56/36/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:09.886701+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."
}