{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-23A.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/23A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Legal professional privilege",
  "text": "In proceedings against a person for an offence under this Order nothing in this Order is to be taken to require any person to disclose any information that he is entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of legal professional privilege.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 23A inserted (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 226(4) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3150/article/23A",
    "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."
}