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Section 990: Debentures carrying voting rights

Companies Act 2006 · 2006 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 28: Takeovers etc — Chapter 3: "Squeeze-out" and "Sell-out"

For the purposes of this Chapter debentures issued by a company to which subsection (2) applies are treated as shares in the company if they carry voting rights.

This subsection applies to a company that has voting shares, or debentures carrying voting rights, which are admitted to trading on a regulated market.

In this Chapter, in relation to debentures treated as shares by virtue of subsection (1)—

references to the holder of shares or a shareholder are to be read accordingly;
references to shares being allotted are to be read as references to debentures being issued.

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