{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Insolvency\nCompanies\nMade 9th September 2021\nComing into operation 11th October 2021\nThe Department of Justice makes the following Rules in the exercise of the powers conferred by Article 359 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 and subsections 73(3) and (4) of the Postal Services Act 2011, with the concurrence of the Department for the Economy and in relation to those Rules that affect court procedure, with the concurrence of the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, under Article 359(1A) of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I.19). Article 359 was amended by the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 223), section 15 of and paragraph 81 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4); Article 15(1) and (5) of and paragraph 142 of Schedule 18 to the (Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976) and by the Insolvency Amendment (EU 2015/848) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/702)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2011 c.5. Section 73(4) and 87(2) of that Act disapply Article 360(2) of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I.19)) (duty to consult the Insolvency Rules Committee before making rules under Article 359 of the 1989 Order)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, see the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5, section 1(3) and Schedule 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 359(1A) was inserted by paragraph 81 of Schedule 5 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 c. 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/257/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:30.830898+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."
}