{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unregistered-companies-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unregistered-companies-regulations-2009/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2436",
  "legislation_title": "The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/unregistered-companies-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "References to registered office and registration",
  "text": "For the purposes of the application to an unregistered company of the provisions of the Companies Acts applying to it by virtue of these Regulations—\n(a) any reference to the company's registered office shall be read as a reference to the company's principal office in the United Kingdom;\n(b) any reference to the part of the United Kingdom in which the company is registered shall be read as a reference to the part of the United Kingdom in which the company's principal office is situated (and references to the registrar of companies shall be read accordingly);\n(c) any reference to the company's registered number shall be read as a reference to the reference number allocated to the company by the registrar.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2436/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:06:00.337524+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."
}