{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-18.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/ZA1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A company is excluded from being eligible if its registered office or head office is outside the United Kingdom and—\n(a) its functions correspond to those of a company mentioned in any of the previous paragraphs of this Schedule apart from paragraph 2 and, if it were a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in Northern Ireland, it would be excluded from being eligible by that paragraph, or\n(b) it has entered into a transaction or done anything else that, if done in Northern Ireland by a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in Northern Ireland, would result in the company being excluded by any of the previous paragraphs of this Schedule apart from paragraph 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 inserted (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 5 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 para. 18 modified (14.12.2020) by The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Liability for Wrongful Trading) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/320), regs. 1, 2(5)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 para. 18 modified (29.4.2021) by The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Liability for Wrongful Trading) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/106), regs. 1, 2(5)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2405/schedule/ZA1/paragraph/18",
    "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."
}