{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/takeovers-directive-interim-implementation-regulations-2006/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/takeovers-directive-interim-implementation-regulations-2006/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1183",
  "legislation_title": "The Takeovers Directive (Interim Implementation) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/takeovers-directive-interim-implementation-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Publication of the Code",
  "text": "(1) The Code must be made available to the public, with or without payment, in whatever way the Panel thinks appropriate.\n(2) A person is not to be taken to have contravened a rule if he shows that at the time of the alleged contravention the Code had not been made available as required by paragraph (1).\n(3) The production of a document purporting to be a printed copy of the Code endorsed with a certificate signed by an officer of the Panel authorised by it for that purpose and stating—\n(a) that it is a true copy of the Code, and\n(b) that on a specified date the Code was made available to the public as required by paragraph (1),\nis evidence (or in Scotland sufficient evidence) of the facts contained in the certificate.\n(4) A certificate purporting to be signed as mentioned in paragraph (3) is to be treated as having been properly signed unless the contrary is shown.\n(5) A person who wishes in any legal proceedings to rely on the Code may require the Panel to endorse a copy of the Code with a certificate of the kind mentioned in paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1183/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:29:33.649883+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."
}