{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/ZA1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Overseas companies with corresponding functions",
  "text": "A company is excluded from being eligible if its registered office or head office is outside the United Kingdom and—\n(a) its functions correspond to those of a company mentioned in any of the previous paragraphs of this Schedule apart from paragraphs 2 and 2A and, if it were a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales or Scotland, it would be excluded from being eligible by that paragraph, or\n(b) it has entered into a transaction or done anything else that, if done in England and Wales or Scotland by a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales or Scotland, would result in the company being excluded by any of the previous paragraphs of this Schedule apart from paragraphs 2 and 2A.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 inserted (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 1 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. ZA1 para. 18(a) substituted (29.6.2020 at 10.30 a.m.) by The Insolvency Act 1986 Part A1 Moratorium (Eligibility of Private Registered Providers) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/652), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. ZA1 para. 18(b) substituted (29.6.2020 at 10.30 a.m.) by The Insolvency Act 1986 Part A1 Moratorium (Eligibility of Private Registered Providers) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/652), regs. 1, 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 para. 18 modified (E.W.S.) (26.11.2020) by The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Liability for Wrongful Trading and Extension of the Relevant Period) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1349), regs. 1, 2(5)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/schedule/ZA1/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:54.608720+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."
}