{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judgments-enforcement-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Judgments to which this Order applies",
  "text": "Subject to Articles 5 and 6 the judgments to which this Order applies are—\n(a) money judgments;\n(b) judgments under which a person is entitled to possession of any land, including a writ of restitution made upon a conviction for forcible entry or detainer and a warrant issued under Article 10(4) of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (warrant for possession of land after conviction of squatter);\n(c) judgments under which a person is entitled to the delivery of any goods;\n(d) judgments requiring any person to pay any money into court or to do any act within a limited time, and judgments against a company, so far as Articles 111 to 113 (and so much of Part XI as is applicable to those Articles) relate to such judgments;\n(e) orders under Article 4(1)( b) or ( d), 8(5), 13(2)( b) or (3)( b) or 22(2) or (8) of the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 1980 NI 5 or Part 1, 2 or 6 of Schedule 16 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 for the payment of lump sums;\n(f) other judgments to which this Order may be applied by any statutory provision; and\n(g) money judgments given outside Northern Ireland and enforceable in Northern Ireland under any statutory provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1986 NI 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2004 c. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 4 applied (1.10.2021) by S.I. 2005/255 (N.I. 1), art. 83C(2) (as inserted by Pension Schemes Act 2021 (c. 1), s. 131(2)(b), Sch. 8 para. 14; S.R. 2021/271, art. 2(3)(i) (with art. 3(5)))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/226/article/4",
    "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."
}