{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "“Connected with a company”",
  "text": "For the purposes of any provision in Parts 1A to 7, a person is connected with a company if—\n(a) he is a director or shadow director of the company or an associate of such a director or shadow director, or\n(b) he is an associate of the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2004/307"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 substituted (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 7 para. 2 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 7 applied (6.4.2006) by Occupational Pension Schemes (Member-nominated Trustees and Directors) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/148), reg. 1(1)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 7 applied by S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1), art. 64A(14)(b) (as inserted (1.9.2021 for specified purposes) by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(2)(b), Sch. 8 para. 8(1); S.R. 2021/240, art. 2(1)(d))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2405/article/7",
    "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."
}