{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-603D",
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  "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/603D",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "603D",
  "heading": "Articles 603B and 603C: supplementary provisions",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 24 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to a document required to be given to any person under Article 603B(6) or 603C(2), the principal office of a body corporate or partnership which—\n(a) is incorporated or formed under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, and\n(b) has a place of business in the United Kingdom,\nshall be taken to be its principal office in the United Kingdom.\n(2) Where a creditor of the company has more than one place of business, section 24(2) of the Act of 1954 shall have effect, so far as concerns the giving of a document to him under Article 603B(6) or 603C(2), as if for paragraphs (b) and (c) there were substituted—\n“(b) it is left, or sent by post to him in accordance with subsection (1), at each place of business of his with which the company has had dealings in relation to a matter by virtue of which he is a creditor of the company.”\n(3) An order or regulations under Article 603B or 603C may make such transitional provisions as the Department considers appropriate.\n(4) For the purposes of Articles 603B and 603C, an application under Article 603A is withdrawn if notice of withdrawal in the prescribed form is given to the registrar.\n(5) In Articles 603B and 603C, \"disposal\" includes part disposal.\n(6) In Articles 603B and 603C and this Article, \"creditor\" includes a contingent or prospective creditor.",
  "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/603D",
    "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."
}