{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-2000-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-2000-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/766",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Act 2000 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-2000-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provisions-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 3, the day appointed for the coming into force of—\n(a) sections 5, 6, 7, 8 (Disqualification of company directors etc.) and Schedule 4,\n(b) sections 9 (Administration orders), 10 (Investigation and prosecution of malpractice), 11 (Restriction on use of answers obtained under compulsion), 12 (Insolvent estates of deceased persons) and 13 (Bankruptcy: interest on sums held in Insolvency Services Account),\n(c) section 15(1) (Repeals) and the entries relating to:—\n(i) sections 218(2) and 218(6)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986,\n(ii) sections 9(1) and 22(4) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and\n(iii) section 78 of the Companies Act 1989\ncontained in Schedule 5,\nis 2nd April 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/766/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:58:54.043044+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."
}