{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-104A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-104A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/2405",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/104A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "104A",
  "heading": "Petition for winding up on grounds of public interest",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Department from—\n(a) any report made or information obtained under Part 14 of the Companies Act 1985 (company investigations, &c.),\nSub-para.(b) rep. by 1993 c.36\n(c ) any report made by inspectors under—\n(i) section 167, 168, 169 or 284 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or\n(ii) where the company is an open-ended investment company (within the meaning of that Act), regulations made as a result of section 262(2)(k) of that Act;\n(cc ) any information or documents obtained under section 165, 171, 172, 173 or 175 of that Act;\n(d) any information obtained under section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 or section 52 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 (fraud investigations), or\n(e) any information obtained under section 83 of the Companies Act 1989 (powers exercisable for purpose of assisting overseas regulatory authorities),\nthat it is expedient in the public interest that a company should be wound up, it may present a petition for it to be wound up if the court thinks it just and equitable for it to be so.\n(2) This Article does not apply if the company is already being wound up by the court.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1990 NI 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 104A(1)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), arts. 2(1), 8, Sch. 1 para. 111(15) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SI 2001/3649"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2004/307"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2405/article/104A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:04.938020+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."
}