{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Contracts Exclusion Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-exclusion-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Finance agreements",
  "text": "(1) A construction contract is excluded from the operation of the 1997 Order if it is a finance agreement.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a contract is a finance agreement if it is any one of the following—\n(a) any contract of insurance;\n(b) any contract under which the principal obligations include the formation or dissolution of a company, unincorporated association or partnership;\n(c) any contract under which the principal obligations include the creation or transfer of securities or any right of interest in securities;\n(d) any contract under which the principal obligations include the lending of money;\n(e) any contract under which the principal obligations include an undertaking by a person to be responsible as surety for the debt or default of another person, including a fidelity bond, advance payment bond, retention bond or performance bond.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 1.6.1999, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/33/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:23.274565+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."
}