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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2011/article-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/151",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2011 and come into operation on 30th June 2011.\n(2) In these Rules—\n“the Department” means the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment;\n“the principal Rules” means the Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) 1991, and any reference to a numbered Part, Rule, Schedule or form is a reference to the Part, Rule, Schedule or form so numbered in the principal Rules unless the context otherwise requires; and\n“the Order” means the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and any reference to a numbered Article is a reference to an Article of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) 1991 (S.R. 1991 No. 364), as amended by the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994 No. 26), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 291), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 247), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 261), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 549), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006 No. 47), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 118), the Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009 No. 404) and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/355)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/151/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}