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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1240",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Act 1986 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986-amendment-no-2-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations “the Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 45; section 1(2) was amended by the Insolvency Act 2000 (c. 39), section 2(a), Schedule 2, paragraphs 1 and 2; section 8 was amended by the Financial Markets and Services Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001, S.I. 2001/3649; section 120(2) was amended by the Court of Session Act 1988 (c. 36), section 52, Schedule 2; section 124(1) was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), section 62(2) and by the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22), section 90(1), Schedule 13, paragraph 133; section 124(3A) was inserted by the Insolvency Act 2000 (c. 39), section 1, Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 and 7; section 124(4) was amended by the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40), section 60(2); section 221(6) was repealed by the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (Appointed Day) (No. 4) Order, S.I. 1989/1223; section 264(1)(d) prospectively repealed, from a day to be appointed, by the Criminal Justice Act 1988, section 170(2), Schedule 16; section 387(2) was amended, and 387(2A) was inserted, by the Insolvency Act 2000, section 2(a), Schedule 2, paragraphs 1, 9 and 11; section 387(5) was amended by that same Act, section 3, Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 and 15; section 388(1), (2) were amended and section 388(2B) was inserted, by the Insolvency Act 2000, section 4(1); sections 388(2A) was inserted and section 388(3) was omitted by the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994, S.I. 1994/2421, articles 15(1) and 15(2); section 388(5) was amended by the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 6), section 11(1); sections 411, 412, 420 and 421 were amended, and the definition of “EC Regulation” was inserted in section 436, by the Insolvency Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2002, S.I. 2002/1037."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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