{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shard-bridge-act-1991/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shard-bridge-act-1991/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1991/5",
  "legislation_title": "Shard Bridge Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shard-bridge-act-1991",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meetings of Company",
  "text": "Notwithstanding anything in the 1845 c. 16.Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 or in any other enactment relating to the Company—\n(a) the ordinary meetings of the Company shall be held once only in each year and the Company shall not be required to balance their accounts half-yearly or to make up a balance sheet half-yearly;\n(b) the Company may by resolution at a general meeting at any time determine that the ordinary meetings of the Company shall be held in such month as the directors may from time to time determine and the Company may from time to time in like manner alter or rescind any such resolutions;\n(c) notice of all general meetings of the Company (whether ordinary or extraordinary) may, if the directors so determine, be given by letter sent by ordinary letter post to each shareholder instead of by public advertisement:\nProvided that the letters shall be directed according to the registered or other known address of each shareholder, pre-paid and posted not later than 7 clear days before the date of the meeting;\n(d) the accidental omission to give notice of a general meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a general meeting by, any shareholder shall not invalidate the proceedings at that general meeting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1991/5/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:47:01.168719+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."
}