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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/open-ended-investment-companies-regulations-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1228",
  "legislation_title": "The Open-Ended Investment Companies Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/open-ended-investment-companies-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Once an authorisation order has been made in respect of a company, no amendment may be made to the statements contained in the company’s instrument of incorporation which are required by paragraph 2.\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1) and to any restriction imposed by FCA rules, a company may amend any provision which is contained in its instrument of incorporation.\n(3) No amendment to a provision which is contained in a company’s instrument of incorporation by virtue of paragraph 3 may be made unless it has been approved by the shareholders of the company in general meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), Sch. 2 para. 41(2)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1228/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  },
  "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."
}