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guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1012", "label": "Companies Act 2006, s.1012 (property of a dissolved company is bona vacantia)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/91", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986, s.91 (members' voluntary winding up: the directors' powers cease)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/103", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986, s.103 (creditors' voluntary winding up: the directors' powers cease)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/114", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986, s.114 (no liquidator yet: the directors' powers restricted)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/schedule/B1", "label": "Insolvency Act 1986, Schedule B1 (administration: an officer's management powers need the administrator's consent)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/strike-off-your-company-from-companies-register", "label": "GOV.UK, Strike off your limited company from the Companies Register", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" }, { "url": "https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/SYSC/9/1.html", "label": "FCA Handbook, SYSC 9.1 (general rules on record-keeping)", "license": "quoted for reporting from the publisher's UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance", "class": "primary-government", "status": "read" } ], "methodology": "Each rule's own UK statutes, the FCA Handbook and GOV.UK guidance were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row). For every statute, regulator or GOV.UK page, three questions were answered from its own words: the closing route it governs, who it gives the say over the company's property, the rule, in its words. Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the statute, regulator or GOV.UK page read does not address the question. A rule with several statute, regulator and GOV.UK pages reads 'varies' where they disagree. 9 rules, 9 statute, regulator and GOV.UK pages.", "embed": "
9 UK rules on who decides about a closing company's property and records, each quoted from the statute, the regulator or GOV.UK, read 28 October 2026.
Who decides about a closing company's records, sellcompanyrecordstoai.com
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