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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horserace-betting-and-olympic-lottery-act-2004/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horserace-betting-and-olympic-lottery-act-2004/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/25",
  "legislation_title": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/horserace-betting-and-olympic-lottery-act-2004",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Shadow directors",
  "text": "While the successor company is wholly owned by the Crown, neither the Secretary of State nor the Treasury shall be treated as a shadow director of the successor company for the purpose of any provision of the Companies Acts (as defined in section 2 of the Companies Act 2006).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 substituted (1.10.2007) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No.3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2194), art. 1(3)(a), Sch. 4 para. 103 (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 25.2.2011 by S.I. 2011/462, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/25/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:00.888714+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."
}