{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-act-northern-ireland-2026/section-68.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/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Effect of approval",
  "text": "(1) Article 234 (effect of approval) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1), for “the meeting summoned under Article 231 approves” substitute “pursuant to Article 231 the debtor’s creditors decide to approve”.\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “at the meeting” substitute “at the time the creditors decided to approve the proposal”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b)(i), for the words from “at the meeting” to “represented at it)” substitute “in the creditors’ decision procedure by which the decision to approve the proposal was made”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), for “it” substitute “that procedure”.\n(4) In paragraph (4)—\n(a) for “preceding the expiration of the period of 28 days from” substitute “before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with”;\n(b) for “meeting” substitute “decision”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 68 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/68",
    "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."
}