{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-consolidation-consequential-provisions-act-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-consolidation-consequential-provisions-act-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/60",
  "legislation_title": "Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-consolidation-consequential-provisions-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/40",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In sections 895(2) and 995(4) of the Companies Act 2006 (compromises with creditors and protection of minorities by the Secretary of State), any reference to a company or body corporate which is liable to be wound up includes a reference to a company or body corporate which would be so liable but for section 25 of the Water Industry Act 1991.\n(2) In section 459(3) of that Act of 1985, for the words “the Water Act 1989” there shall be substituted the words “ the Statutory Water Companies Act 1991 ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 40(1) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 182 (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/46",
      "affecting_title": "Companies Act 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/60/schedule/1/paragraph/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:42.585966+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."
}