{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-4/paragraph-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/schedule-4/paragraph-54.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/4/paragraph/54",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Modified Article 146 (set out in paragraph 21) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the responsible insolvency practitioner may be removed from office only by—\n(a) an order of the High Court, or\n(b) a decision, made by a creditors’ decision procedure instigated specially for that purpose in accordance with the rules, of the creditors of the partnership and the creditors of any insolvent member against whom an insolvency order has been made.”.\n(3) After paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) The provisional liquidator may be removed from office only by an order of the High Court.”.\n(4) For paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) A responsible insolvency practitioner who, under Article 124, has produced an account of the winding-up of the partnership or of any corporate member, or an account of the administration of an individual member’s estate, vacates office in relation to the partnership, that corporate member or that individual member’s estate immediately upon complying with the requirements of Article 124(4) in relation to the partnership, the corporate member or (as the case may be) the estate.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 54 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/4/paragraph/54",
    "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."
}