{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-137",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-137.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/226",
  "legislation_title": "Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/137",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "137",
  "heading": "Dilatory creditors",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies where applications have been received from two or more creditors for the enforcement of separate money judgments against the same debtor and it appears to the Office that the creditor ( “the first creditor”) whose application has first priority as between both or all of them is not pursuing with proper diligence the remedies available to him under this Order.\n(2) The Office may—\n(a) make an order requiring the first creditor to show cause why an order should not be made depriving his application of its priority; and\n(b) if the creditor fails to show such cause, make an order declaring that any existing priority attaching to the application is forfeited.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/226/article/137",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:20.705084+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."
}