{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-relations-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-70A",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1992/807",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-relations-northern-ireland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/70A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70A",
  "heading": "Vexatious litigants",
  "text": "(1) The Certification Officer may refuse to entertain any application or complaint made to him under a provision of—\n(a) this Order; or\n(b) Parts II to VIA of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1995,\nby a vexatious litigant.\n(2) The Certification Officer must give reasons for such a refusal.\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a complaint under Article 12E(1)(b) or to an application under Article 5 or 6 or paragraph 30 of Schedule 1.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a vexatious litigant is a person who is the subject of—\n(a) an order which is made under section 32 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978,\n(b) an order which is made under section 33(1) of the Industrial Tribunals Act 1996 and which remains in force,\n(c) a civil proceedings order or an all proceedings order which is made under section 42(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 and which remains in force, or\n(d) an order which is made under section 1 of the Vexatious Actions (Scotland) Act 1898.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1999 NI 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 1(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(b)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1992/807/article/70A",
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  },
  "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."
}