{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-assurance-northern-ireland-order-1979/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1574",
  "legislation_title": "Industrial Assurance (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-assurance-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where an industrial assurance company is charged with a contravention of paragraph 2 in respect of the payment by the company of a sum which exceeded the limit of £30 imposed by paragraph 2(2)( b) or ( c) in consequence of the addition as thereby required of another sum paid by another industrial assurance company or by a registered friendly society, or two or more other sums so paid, and which would not have exceeded the limit apart from that addition, it shall be a defence for the company charged to prove that—\n(a) the sum in respect of which the company is charged was paid in accordance with paragraph 5; and\n(b) the certificate produced disclosed no payment by any other industrial assurance company or by a registered friendly society of any sum or sums required by the said paragraph 2(2)( b) or ( c) to be added, or disclosed such payment but only to an amount insufficient to cause the sum in respect of which the company is charged to exceed that limit;\nsubject, however, in the case of a certificate which is a duplicate, to the provisions of paragraph 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1574/schedule/3/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:45.581277+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."
}