{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-40.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": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Choice of liquidator at meetings of creditors and contributories",
  "text": "(1) Article 118 (choice of liquidator at meetings of creditors and contributories) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1), for “separate meetings of the company’s creditors and contributories are summoned” substitute “nominations are sought from the company’s creditors and contributories”.\n(3) In paragraph (2), for “at their respective meetings may” substitute “may in accordance with the rules”.\n(4) In the heading, for “at meetings of” substitute “by”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 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/section/40",
    "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."
}