{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/26",
  "legislation_title": "Postal Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-services-act-2000",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "Shadow directors.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the provisions ... listed in subsection (2) neither the Treasury nor the Secretary of State shall be regarded as a shadow director of a relevant company any part of which is owned by the Crown.\n(2) The provisions are—\n(a) section 162(6) of the Companies Act 2006 (register of directors: liability for offence);\n(b) Chapter 3 of Part 10 of that Act (declaration of interest in existing transaction or arrangement);\n(c) sections 190 to 196 of that Act (transactions requiring members’ approval: substantial property transactions);\n(d) sections 197 to 214 of that Act (transactions requiring members’ approval: loans etc. );\n(e) regulation 10(3) of the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008 (liability for offence), as it applies in relation to an offence under regulation 8 (disclosure of names of directors).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 80(1) repealed (1.10.2007) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No.3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2194), art. 1(3)(a), Sch. 4 para. 94(2), Sch. 5 (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 80(1) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 20; S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 80(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 183(4) (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/80",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:11:05.559098+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}