Companies Acts resources

The Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) embodies the most wide-ranging reform of company law in over 35 years. It replaced the Companies Act 1985 (CA 1985) as the key UK company law statute and, while to a large extent CA 2006 restates the law as in force under CA 1985, it also contains significant changes to it.

For more information on the background to CA 2006, see Practice Note: Companies Act 2006—history and approach to implementation.

Implementation of CA 2006

CA 2006 was brought into force on a staggered basis over a period of around three years and its final provisions came into effect on 1 October 2009. There were several implementation dates between (and including) 8 November 2006 and 1 October 2009 and Practice Note:

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