{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-63.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/63",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Re-registration of public company as private",
  "text": "(1) A public company may be re-registered as a private company if—\n(a) a special resolution complying with paragraph (2) that it should be so re-registered is passed and has not been cancelled by the court under Article 64;\n(b) an application for the purpose in the prescribed form and signed by a director or the secretary of the company is delivered to the registrar, together with a printed copy of the memorandum and articles of the company as altered by the resolution; and\n(c) the period during which an application for the cancellation of the resolution under Article 64 may be made has expired without any such application having been made; or\n(d) where such an application has been made, the application has been withdrawn or an order has been made under Article 64(5) confirming the resolution and a copy of that order has been delivered to the registrar.\n(2) The special resolution must alter the company's memorandum so that it no longer states that the company is to be a public company and must make such other alterations in the company's memorandum and articles as are requisite in the circumstances.\n(3) A company cannot under this Article be re-registered otherwise than as a company limited by shares or by guarantee.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/63",
    "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."
}