{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-652O",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-652O.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/652O",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "652O",
  "heading": "Particulars to be delivered to the registrar: winding up",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (8), where a company to which this Chapter applies is being wound up, it shall deliver to the registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form containing the following particulars—\n(a) the name of the company;\n(b) whether the company is being wound up by an order of a court and, if so, the name and address of the court and the date of the order;\n(c) if the company is not being so wound up, as a result of what action the winding up has commenced;\n(d) whether the winding up has been instigated by:\n(i) the company's members;\n(ii) the company's creditors; or\n(iii) some other person or persons,\nand, in the case of (iii) the identity of that person or those persons shall be given; and\n(e) the date on which the winding up became or will become effective.\n(2) The period allowed for delivery of a return under paragraph (1) is 14 days from the date on which the winding up begins.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (8), a person appointed to be the liquidator of a company to which this Chapter applies shall deliver to the registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form containing the following particulars—\n(a) his name and address,\n(b) the date of his appointment, and\n(c) a description of such of his powers, if any, as are derived otherwise than from the general law of the company's constitution.\n(4) The period allowed for delivery of a return under paragraph (3) is 14 days from the date of the liquidator's appointment.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (8), the liquidator of a company to which this Chapter applies shall deliver to the registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form upon the occurrence of the following events—\n(a) the termination of the winding up of the company, and\n(b) the company ceasing to be registered, in circumstances where ceasing to be registered is an event of legal significance.\nThe following particulars shall be given:\n(i)in the case of (a), the name of the company and the date on which the winding up terminated; and\n(ii)in the case of (b), the name of the company and the date on which the company ceased to be registered.\n(6) The period allowed for delivery of a return under paragraph (5) is 14 days from the date of the event concerned.\n(7) The obligation to deliver a return under paragraph (1), (3) or (5) shall apply in respect of each branch which the company has in Northern Ireland (though where the company has more than one branch in Northern Ireland a return which gives the branch numbers of two or more such branches is to be regarded as a return in respect of each branch whose number is given).\n(8) No return is required under paragraph (1), (3) or (5) in respect of a winding up under Part VI of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 1993/198"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/652O",
    "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."
}