{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uncertificated-securities-regulations-1992/regulation-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uncertificated-securities-regulations-1992/regulation-37.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Uncertificated Securities Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uncertificated-securities-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Multiple instructions by controllers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, a company shall not register a person as holding a unit of any uncertificated security in response to a proper instruction to register if the controller which has issued the instruction has, for the purposes of the periodic update of the register in question, purportedly issued such instructions with respect to more units of the security than there were entitlements held by that controller in respect of the security on the date by reference to which the register is to be updated.\n(2) However before a company may refuse to register a person under paragraph (1) it must first have taken such steps as are reasonably practicable, if any, to call (in the case of a commercial or alternative company controller by means of a valid communication) for further proper instructions to register with respect to the entitlements held by that controller on the date by reference to which the register is to be updated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/225/regulation/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:29:49.332796+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."
}