{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-2005/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2005/1455",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-northern-ireland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Abolition of Crown preference",
  "text": "(1) The following paragraphs of Schedule 4 to the 1989 Order (categories of preferential debts) shall cease to have effect—\n(a) paragraphs 1 and 2 (debts due to Inland Revenue),\n(b) paragraphs 3 to 5C (debts due to Customs and Excise), and\n(c) paragraphs 6 and 7 (social security contributions).\n(2) In Article 346 of the 1989 Order (categories of preferential debts) in paragraph (1) for the parenthetical words after “Schedule 4” there shall be substituted “ (contributions to occupational pension schemes; remuneration, &c. of employees; levies on coal and steel production) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 wholly in operation at 27.3.2006, see art. 1(3) and S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (subject to S.R. 2006/22, arts. 2-7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2005/1455/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:41.280503+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."
}