{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-51.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1994/426",
  "legislation_title": "The Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994",
  "path": "article/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "The successor company",
  "text": "(1) The Department may by order nominate as the successor company for the purposes of this Order a company which—\n(a) is a company limited by shares (within the meaning of section 3 of the Companies Act 2006); and\n(b) is wholly owned by the Crown;\nand references in this Order to “the successor company” are references to the company so nominated.\n(2) In the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, in Part III of Schedule 1 (other disqualifying offices) there shall be inserted (at the appropriate place in alphabetical order) the following entry—\n“Director of the successor company (within the meaning of Part V of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994), being a director nominated or appointed by a Northern Ireland department or by a person acting on behalf of a Northern Ireland department” .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 51(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 149(4) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1975 c.25"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1994/426/article/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:46.282391+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."
}