{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1035",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-consolidation-consequential-provisions-northern-ireland-order-1986-repealed",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Old public company becoming private",
  "text": "(1) An old public company may pass a special resolution not to be re-registered under Article 4 as a public company; and Article 64 of the principal Order (litigated objection by shareholders) applies to the resolution as it would apply to a special resolution by a public company to be re-registered as private.\n(2) If either—\n(a) 28 days from the passing of the resolution elapse without an application being made under Article 64 of the principal Order (as applied), or\n(b) such an application is made and proceedings are concluded on the application without the court making an order for the cancellation of the resolution,\nthe registrar shall issue the company with a certificate stating that it is a private company; and the company then becomes a private company by virtue of the issue of the certificate.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), proceedings on the application are concluded—\n(a) except in a case within sub-paragraph (b), when the period mentioned in Article 64(7) of the principal Order (as applied) for delivering an office copy of the court's order under that Article to the registrar has expired, or\n(b) when the company has been notified that the application has been withdrawn.\n(4) If an old public company delivers to the registrar a statutory declaration in the prescribed form by a director or secretary of the company that the company does not at the time of the declaration satisfy the conditions specified in Article 5 for the company to be re-registered as public, the registrar shall issue the company with a certificate stating that it is a private company; and the company then becomes a private company by virtue of the issue of the certificate.\n(5) A certificate issued to a company under paragraph (2) or (4) is conclusive evidence that the requirements of that paragraph have been complied with and that the company is a private company.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1035/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:26.034334+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."
}