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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-merger-reference-cobham-ultra-acquisitions-ltd-and-ultra-electronics-holdings-plc-pre-emptive-action-order-2021/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-merger-reference-cobham-ultra-acquisitions-ltd-and-ultra-electronics-holdings-plc-pre-emptive-action-order-2021/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Interest Merger Reference (Cobham Ultra Acquisitions Ltd. and Ultra Electronics Holdings plc) (Pre-emptive Action) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-merger-reference-cobham-ultra-acquisitions-ltd-and-ultra-electronics-holdings-plc-pre-emptive-action-order-2021",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Enterprise Act 2002;\n“armed forces” means any of the naval, military or air forces of the Crown;\n“Cobham” means Cobham Ultra Acquisitions Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registered number 13552764);\n“Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in section 8(1) of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975;\n“UK Government” means a Minister of the Crown or a department of the Government of the United Kingdom;\n“Ultra” means Ultra Electronics Holdings plc, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registered number 02830397);\n“working day” means any day which is not—\n(a) a Saturday, a Sunday, Good Friday or Christmas Day, or\n(b) a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, one person (A) is an “affiliate” of another person (B), if—\n(a) any enterprise that A carries on from time to time and any enterprise that B carries on from time to time would be regarded as being under common control for the purposes of section 26 of the Act (enterprises ceasing to be distinct enterprises), or\n(b) A and B are interconnected bodies corporate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Interconnected bodies corporate” are defined in section 129(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/944/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:09:48.557271+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."
}