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  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
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  "text": "(1) A period specified in paragraph 50(5), 51(1)(b) or 52(2) may be varied in respect of a company by the administrator with consent.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1) “consent” means consent of—\n(a) each secured creditor of the company, and\n(b) if the company has unsecured debts, creditors whose debts amount to more than 50 per cent. of the company's unsecured debts, disregarding debts of any creditor who does not respond to an invitation to give or withhold consent.\n(3) But where the administrator has made a statement under paragraph 53(1)(b) “consent” means—\n(a) consent of each secured creditor of the company, or\n(b) if the administrator thinks that a distribution may be made to preferential creditors, consent of—\n(i) each secured creditor of the company, and\n(ii) preferential creditors whose debts amount to more than 50 per cent. of the total preferential debts of the company, disregarding debts of any creditor who does not respond to an invitation to give or withhold consent.\n(4) Consent for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) may be—\n(a) written, or\n(b) signified at a creditors' meeting.\n(5) The power to extend under sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) may be exercised in respect of a period only once,\n(b) may not be used to extend a period by more than 28 days,\n(c) may not be used to extend a period which has been extended by the High Court, and\n(d) may not be used to extend a period after expiry.",
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      "text": "Sch. B1 inserted (27.3.2006) by Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 3(2), Sch. 1 (with art. 4); S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (with S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2-7)"
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      "text": "Sch. B1 para. 109 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)"
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      "text": "Sch. B1 applied (with modifications) (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2021/716, Sch. 2A para. 6 (as inserted by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1399), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2)"
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