{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-20",
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  "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/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Effect of certificate of unenforceability",
  "text": "Where a certificate of unenforceability is granted in respect of a money judgment against a debtor—\n(a) no further action shall be taken by the Office in relation to—\n(i) the application for enforcement of that judgment, or\n(ii) any application for enforcement of any other money judgment against that debtor, where the application bears a serial number later than that of the application mentioned in head (i); and\n(b) no further application under Article 22 or 23(1) in relation to that debtor shall be accepted by the Office without the leave of the Chief Enforcement Officer;\nunless the certificate is set aside under Article 13( g)(iii).",
  "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/20",
    "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."
}