{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-3/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2026/6",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 10 (disqualification order or undertaking; and reporting provisions), for paragraphs (5) and (5A) (power of Department or official receiver to require information) substitute—\n“(5) Where a company or overseas company (“C”) has at any time become insolvent, the Department or the official receiver may require any person (“A”)—\n(a) to furnish the Department or, as the case may be, the official receiver with such relevant information, and\n(b) to produce and permit inspection of such relevant records,\nas the Department or the official receiver may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether to exercise, or of exercising, any function under this Article.\n(5A) Where a company or overseas company (“C”) has been dissolved without becoming insolvent, the Department or the official receiver may require any person (“A”)—\n(a) to furnish the Department or, as the case may be, the official receiver with such relevant information, and\n(b) to produce and permit inspection of such relevant records,\nas the Department or the official receiver may reasonably require for the purpose of determining whether to exercise, or of exercising, any function under this Article.\n(5B) “Relevant information” is information with respect to the conduct of A, or another person, as a director of company C.\n(5C) “Relevant records” are books, papers and other records that are considered by the Department or (as the case may be) the official receiver to be relevant to the conduct of A, or another person, as a director of company C.\n(5D) For the purposes of paragraphs (5B) and (5C) it does not matter whether company C became insolvent, or was dissolved, while A or (as the case may be) the other person was a director or subsequently.”.\n(3) In Article 10(6), for “and (2)” substitute “, (2) and (2A)”.\n(4) In Article 11B(3), for “and (5A)” substitute “to (5D)”.\n(5) In Article 11C(4), for “and (5A)” substitute “to (5D)”.\n(6) In consequence of the amendment made by paragraph (2), omit section 3(3)(b) of the Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 7 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 120(02)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2026/6/schedule/3/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:58.712686+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."
}