{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Disqualification undertakings: general",
  "text": "(1) In the circumstances specified in Articles 8A, 10, 11, 11C and 11E the Department may accept a disqualification undertaking, that is to say an undertaking by any person that, for a period specified in the undertaking, the person—\n(a) will not be a director of a company, act as receiver of a company's property or in any way, whether directly or indirectly, be concerned or take part in the promotion, formation or management of a company unless (in each case) he has the leave of the High Court, and\n(b) will not act as an insolvency practitioner.\n(2) The maximum period which may be specified in a disqualification undertaking is 15 years; and the minimum period which may be specified in a disqualification undertaking under Article 10 or 11C is two years.\n(3) Where a disqualification undertaking by a person who is already subject to such an undertaking or to a disqualification order is accepted, the periods specified in those undertakings or (as the case may be) the undertaking and the order shall run concurrently.\n(4) In determining whether to accept a disqualification undertaking by any person, the Department may take account of matters other than criminal convictions, notwithstanding that the person may be criminally liable in respect of those matters.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 9(4)(a); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) inserted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 9(4)(b); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3150/article/4",
    "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."
}