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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disqualification-orders-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Disqualification Orders) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disqualification-orders-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“disqualification order” means an order of the court under any of Articles 5 to 8, 8A, 9, 11, 11A, 11D, 13A and 14 of the Order or an order of the High Court under section 8ZF or 8ZG of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986;\n“disqualification undertaking” means an undertaking accepted by the Department under Article 8A, 10, 11, 11C, 11E or 13B of the Order or an undertaking accepted by an officer of Revenue and Customs under section 8ZF or 8ZG of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, insofar as these two sections extend to Northern Ireland\n“grant of leave” means a grant by the High Court of leave to any person in relation to a disqualification order or a disqualification undertaking for the purposes of Article 3(1)(a), 4(1)(a) or 13B(4) of the Order or of section 1(1)(a) or 1A(1)(a) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 as they extend to Northern Ireland.\n“High Court” means His Majesty’s High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland;\n“officer of Revenue and Customs” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005.\n“the Order” means the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) (Insolvency and Company Directors Disqualification) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1651), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.2.2025) by The Companies (Disqualification Orders) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/14), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) (Insolvency and Company Directors Disqualification) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1651), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.2.2025) by The Companies (Disqualification Orders) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/14), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.2.2025) by The Companies (Disqualification Orders) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/14), regs. 1, 4(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.2.2025) by The Companies (Disqualification Orders) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/14), regs. 1, 4(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 18.6.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/184/regulation/2",
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  "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."
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