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Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
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Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
1986 CHAPTER 46
An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the disqualification of persons from being directors of companies, and from being otherwise concerned with a company’s affairs.
[25th July 1986]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act applied (with modifications) (6.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1090, reg. 4(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II
Act applied (with modifications) (29.3.2009) by 1986 c. 53, s. 90E (as inserted by S.I. 2009/2142, art. 6)
C2Act applied (with modifications) (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 121, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 2 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 5(6))
C3Act applied (with modifications) (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 155, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 3 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 5(11))
C4Act modified by S.I. 1986/2142, arts. 1(2), 3
Act modified (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 25, Sch. 4 para. 3
Act modified (30.6.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1301), rule 334
C5Act modified (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 23 (as amended (7.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/400, regs. 1(2), 10(6))
C6Act applied (in part) by S.I. 1989/638, reg. 20 (as amended (1.10.2009) by The European Economic Interest Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399), reg. 21 (with reg. 2))
Act applied (1.8.2007) by The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1949), reg. 9
C7Act: power to amend conferred (17.2.2009 for specified purposes and 21.2.2009 otherwise) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 158(2)(b), 159(2)(b), 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 3
C8Act excluded (10.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3348), art. 217
C9Act applied (with modifications) (31.7.2015) by The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1493), reg. 10 (with reg. 11)
C10Act modified (12.11.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1178), rules 2, 295
C11Act modified (S.) (19.12.2022) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Scotland) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/1239), rules 2, 206
C12Act: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 11 para. 165; S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(ddd)(xiv)
C13Act applied (with modifications) (8.7.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/716), reg. 46, Sch. 1 para. 4 (with reg. 5, Sch. 2 paras. 3, 7) (as amended (4.1.2024) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 19)
C14Act (except for ss. 13-15) extended (N.I.) for specified purposes (22.2.2024) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 13 para. 4(3)
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I1Act wholly in force at 29.12.1986 by s. 25 and S.I. 1986/1924
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