{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/3150",
  "legislation_title": "The Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Disqualification of director on finding of unfitness",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Department ... that it is expedient in the public interest that a disqualification order should be made against a person who is, or has been, a director or shadow director of a company, the Department may apply to the High Court for such an order.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where it appears to the Department ... that, in the case of a person who has offered to give the Department a disqualification undertaking—\n(a) the conduct of the person in relation to a company of which the person is or has been a director or shadow director (either taken alone or taken together with his conduct as a director or shadow director of one or more other companies or overseas companies), makes him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company, and\n(b) it is expedient in the public interest that the Department should accept the undertaking (instead of applying, or proceeding with an application, for a disqualification order),\nthe Department may accept the undertaking.\n(4) The High Court may make a disqualification order against a person where, on an application under this Article, it is satisfied that his conduct in relation to the company (either taken alone or taken together with his conduct as a director or shadow director of one or more other companies or overseas companies) makes him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company.\n(4A) Paragraph (1A) of Article 9 applies for the purposes of this Article as it applies for the purposes of that Article.\n(5) The maximum period of disqualification under this Article is 15 years.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(1) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 6(2)(a); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 11(2) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 6(2)(b); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(3) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 6(2)(c); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(3)(a) inserted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 3(3)(a); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h) (with Sch. paras. 5-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 11(4) inserted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 3(3)(b); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h) (with Sch. paras. 5-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 11(4A) inserted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 3(3)(c); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h) (with Sch. paras. 5-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 11 heading substituted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 6(3); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 11 applied by S.I. 1989/638, reg. 20(2) (as inserted (1.10.2009) by European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399)), {reg. 21(4)} (with reg. 2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 11 applied (with modifications) (22.2.2024) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 13 para. 5(2) (with Sch. 13 para. 5(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3150/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:31.864982+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."
}