{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-655",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-655.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/655",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "655",
  "heading": "Delivery to the registar of documents in legible form",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies to the delivery to the registrar under any provision of the Companies Orders of documents in legible form.\n(2) The document must—\n(a ) state in a prominent position the registered number of the company to which it relates, and, if the document is delivered under Article 645A, 652O or 652P or Schedule 20A or 20D, the registered number of the branch to which it relates,\n(b) satisfy any requirements prescribed by regulations for the purposes of this Article, and\n(c) conform to such requirements as the registrar may specify for the purpose of enabling him to copy the document.\n(3) If a document is delivered to the registrar which does not comply with the requirements of this Article, he may serve on the person by whom the document was delivered (or, if there are two or more such persons, on any of them) a notice indicating the respect in which the document does not comply.\n(4) Where the registrar serves such a notice, then, unless a replacement document—\n(a) is delivered to him within 14 days after the service of the notice, and\n(b) complies with the requirements of this Article (or Article 656B) or is not rejected by him for failure to comply with those requirements,\nthe original document shall be deemed not to have been delivered to him.\nBut for the purposes of any statutory provision imposing a penalty for failure to deliver, so far as it imposes a penalty for continued contravention, no account shall be taken of the period between the delivery of the original document and the end of the period of 14 days after service of the registrar's notice.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 655 substituted by 1990 NI 10, art. 59(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2004/307"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SR 1993/198"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SR 2003/3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/655",
    "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."
}