{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-reference-elders-ixl-limited-and-scottish-newcastle-breweries-plc-order-1988/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-reference-elders-ixl-limited-and-scottish-newcastle-breweries-plc-order-1988/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1965",
  "legislation_title": "The Merger Reference (Elders IXL Limited and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries plc) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-reference-elders-ixl-limited-and-scottish-newcastle-breweries-plc-order-1988",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Merger Reference (Elders IXL Limited and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries plc) Order 1988 and shall come into force at 3.00 p.m. on 10th November 1988.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order —\n(a) “interest in shares” shall include an entitlement, by a person not being the registered holder, to exercise any right conferred by the holding of those shares or an entitlement to control the exercise of any such right; and\n(b) “subsidiary” has the same meaning as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1965/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:09.547630+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."
}