{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1989/2405",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a winding up by the High Court has commenced, or is treated as having commenced, before the commencement date, the official receiver or (on appeal from a refusal by him) the Court may, at any time on or after that date—\n(a) release a person from an obligation imposed on him by or under Article 489 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (statement of affairs), or\n(b) extend the period specified in paragraph (6) of that Article.\n(2) Accordingly, on and after the commencement date, Article 489(6) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 has effect in relation to a winding up to which this paragraph applies with the omission of the words from “or within” onwards.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 4(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. 114(3) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 4(2) 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. 114(3) (with art. 10)"
    }
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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."
}