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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-removal-of-20-member-limit-in-partnerships-etc-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3203",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Removal of 20 Member Limit in Partnerships etc.) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-removal-of-20-member-limit-in-partnerships-etc-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Sections 716 (general partnerships etc.: limit on number of members) and 717 (limited partnerships: limit on number of members) of the Companies Act 1985 are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 716 was amended by sections 145 and 212 of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 19 and Schedule 24 to, the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40); by section 263 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c. 8); by regulation 2 of, and paragraph 53 of the Schedule to, S.I. 1991/1997; by regulation 84 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to, S.I. 2001/1228, and by article 11 of S.I. 2002/1555."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 717 was amended by sections 145 and 212 of, and paragraph 16 of Schedule 19 and Schedule 24 to, the Companies Act 1989; by regulation 2 of, and paragraph 53 of the Schedule to, S.I. 1991/1997, and by regulation 2 of S.I. 1995/1163."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    }
  ],
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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."
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