{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2016/2",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Powers of liquidator exercisable with or without sanction in a winding up",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 to the Insolvency Order is amended as follows.\n(2) In Part 1 (powers exercisable with sanction), paragraph 3 is repealed.\n(3) In Part 3 (powers exercisable without sanction in any winding up), after paragraph 7, insert—\n“\n7A Power to compromise, on such terms as may be agreed—\n(a) all calls and liabilities to calls, all debts and liabilities capable of resulting in debts, and all claims (present or future, certain or contingent, ascertained or sounding only in damages) subsisting or supposed to subsist between the company and a contributory or alleged contributory or other debtor or person apprehending liability to the company, and\n(b) subject to paragraph 2 in Part 1 of this Schedule, all questions in any way relating to or affecting the assets or the winding up of the company,\nand take any security for the discharge of any such call, debt, liability or claim and give a complete discharge in respect of it.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in operation at 1.4.2016 by S.R. 2016/203, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "nia/2026/6",
      "affecting_title": "Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/2/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:07.081346+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."
}