{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-603A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-603A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked",
  "path": "article/603A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "603A",
  "heading": "Registrar may strike private company off register on application",
  "text": "(1) On application by a private company, the registrar may strike the company's name off the register.\n(2) An application by a company under this Article shall—\n(a) be made on its behalf by its directors or by a majority of them,\n(b) be in the prescribed form, and\n(c) contain the prescribed information.\n(3) The registrar shall not strike a company off under this Article until after the expiration of 3 months from the publication by him in the Belfast Gazette of a notice—\n(a) stating that he may exercise his power under this Article in relation to the company, and\n(b) inviting any person to show cause why he should not do so.\n(4) Where the registrar strikes a company off under this Article, he shall publish notice of that fact in the Belfast Gazette.\n(5) On the publication in the Belfast Gazette of a notice under paragraph (4), the company to which the notice relates is dissolved.\n(6) However, the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer and member of the company continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved.\n(7) Nothing in this Article affects the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2004/307"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/603A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:35.100869+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."
}