{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-development-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-development-northern-ireland-order-1982/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1982/1083",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Development (Northern Ireland) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-development-northern-ireland-order-1982",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part III",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“basic service” means the provision of—\n(a)means of communication;\n(b)power, lighting or heating; or\n(c)any other service on which undertakings depend, including housing, water supplies, drainage and other facilities for meeting the requirements of persons employed in industrial undertakings;\n“holding company” and “subsidiary” have the meanings given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006;\n“public utility undertaking” includes any company or authority which carries on a gas, electricity or public transport or harbour undertaking.\n(2) In this Part references to the guaranteeing of a loan shall be construed as references to guaranteeing (whether wholly or in part and whether solely or jointly with other guarantors) the payment either of the interest or of the principal, or of both, of the loan.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1990 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 15(1) in definition of \"holding company\" and \"subsidiary\" substituted (1.10.2009) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 53 (with art. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1982/1083/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:49:33.796618+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."
}