{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-350P",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-350P.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/350P",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "350P",
  "heading": "Application for, and power to make, direct sanctions order",
  "text": "(1) The Department may apply to the High Court for a direct sanctions order to be made against a person if it appears to the Department that it would be in the public interest for the order to be made.\n(2) The Department must send a copy of the application to the relevant recognised professional body.\n(3) The Court may make a direct sanctions order against a person where, on an application under this Article, the Court is satisfied that condition 1 and at least one of conditions 2, 3, 4 and 5 are met in relation to the person.\n(4) The conditions are set out in Article 350Q.\n(5) In deciding whether to make a direct sanctions order against a person the Court must have regard to the extent to which—\n(a) the relevant recognised professional body has taken action against the person in respect of the failure mentioned in condition 1; and\n(b) that action is sufficient to address the failure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 350O-350R and cross-heading inserted (1.4.2016) by Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 2), ss. 18, 28(2); S.R. 2016/203, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 350O-350R applied (7.4.2017) by The Deregulation Act 2015, the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 and the Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/400), regs. 1(2), 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Arts. 349-350T applied (with modifications) (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2021/716, reg. 37A (as inserted by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), regs. 1(2), 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2405/article/350P",
    "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."
}