{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-8A.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/8A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Disqualification for certain convictions abroad",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Department that it is expedient in the public interest that a disqualification order under this Article should be made against a person, the Department may apply to the High Court for such an order.\n(2) The High Court may, on an application under paragraph (1), make a disqualification order against a person who has been convicted of a relevant foreign offence.\n(3) A “relevant foreign offence” is an offence committed outside Northern Ireland—\n(a) in connection with—\n(i) the promotion, formation, management, liquidation or striking off of a company (or any similar procedure),\n(ii) the receivership of a company's property (or any similar procedure), or\n(iii) a person being an administrative receiver of a company (or holding a similar position), and\n(b) which corresponds to an indictable offence under the law of Northern Ireland.\n(4) Where it appears to the Department that, in the case of a person who has offered to give a disqualification undertaking—\n(a) the person has been convicted of a relevant foreign offence, 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(5) In this Article, “company” includes an overseas company.\n(6) The maximum period of disqualification under an order under this Article is 15 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8A inserted (1.10.2015) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 8 para. 2(1) (with Sch. 8 para. 2(2)); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(h) (with Sch. para. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3150/article/8A",
    "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."
}