# The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, Paragraph 18


A company is excluded from being eligible if its registered office or head office is outside the United Kingdom and—
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2405/schedule/ZA1/paragraph/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-1989/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-18
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