{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/866",
  "legislation_title": "The Gas Act 1986 (Government Shareholding) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986-government-shareholding-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GAS\nMade 10th May 1987\nLaid before Parliament 13th May 1987\nComing into force 3rd June 1987\nWhereas British Gas public limited company, being the successor company to the British Gas Corporation, ceased to be wholly owned by the Crown on 8th December 1986, and whereas the Government shareholding carries 2.680 per cent of the voting rights exercisable in all circumstances at general meetings of the company:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 54(1) of the Gas Act 1986 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1986/1317; this Order nominated British Gas public limited company as the successor company to the British Gas Corporation for the purposes of section 49 of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/866/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:42.925131+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."
}