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  "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/93",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After modified Article 21 insert—\n“Register of disqualification orders and undertakings\n22. (1) Where—\n(a) a disqualification order is made, or\n(b) any action is taken by a court in consequence of which such an order or a disqualification undertaking is varied or ceases to be in force, or\n(c) leave is granted by the High Court for a person subject to such an order to do any thing which otherwise the order prohibits the person from doing, or\n(d) leave is granted by the High Court for a person subject to such an undertaking to do anything which otherwise the undertaking prohibits that person from doing,\nthe clerk of the court must furnish to the Department and to the Secretary of State such particulars as may be prescribed and regulations may prescribe the time within which, and the form and manner in which, such particulars are to be furnished.\n(2) The Department must, from the particulars so furnished, continue to maintain the register of disqualification orders and of cases in which leave has been granted as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c).\n(3) The Department must include in the register such particulars as it considers appropriate of—\n(a) disqualification undertakings accepted by it under Article 10 or 11C;\n(c) cases in which leave has been granted as mentioned in paragraph (1)(d).\n(4) When an order or undertaking of which entry is made in the register ceases to be in force, the Department must delete the entry from the register and all particulars relating to it which have been furnished to the Department under this Article or any previous corresponding provision and, in the case of a disqualification undertaking, any other particulars the Department has included in the register.\n(5) The register must be open to inspection on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.\n(6) The Department may furnish to the Secretary of State such particulars as the Department considers appropriate of disqualification undertakings accepted by it under Article 10.\n(7) Regulations under this Article may extend the preceding provisions of this Article, to such extent and with such modifications as may be specified in the regulations, to disqualification orders made and disqualification undertakings accepted under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 as applied by Article 16 of the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994.\nAdmissibility in evidence of statements\n23. (1) In any proceedings (whether or not under this Order), any statement made in pursuance of a requirement imposed by or under Articles 9 to 10A, 11A to 11C, 12, 14 or 19 to 19C or Schedule 1 or by or under rules made for the purposes of this Order under the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, may be used in evidence against any person making or concurring in making the statement.\n(2) However, in criminal proceedings in which any such person is charged with an offence to which this paragraph applies—\n(a) no evidence relating to the statement may be adduced, and\n(b) no question relating to it may be asked,\nby or on behalf of the prosecution, unless evidence relating to it is adduced, or a question relating to it is asked, in the proceedings by or on behalf of that person.\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies to any offence other than—\n(a) an offence which is—\n(i) created by rules made for the purposes of this Order under the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, and\n(ii) designated for the purposes of this paragraph by such rules or by regulations;\n(b) an offence which is—\n(i) created by regulations made under any such rules, and\n(ii) designated for the purposes of this paragraph by such regulations; or\n(c) an offence under Article 10 of the Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (false statements made otherwise than on oath).\n(4) Regulations under paragraph (3)(a)(ii) must after being made be laid before the Assembly.\nLegal professional privilege\n23A. In proceedings against a person for an offence under Article 18 nothing in this Order is to be taken to require any person to disclose any information that he is entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of legal professional privilege.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 93 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 120(02)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2026/6/schedule/4/paragraph/93",
    "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."
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