{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-21A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976/article-21A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1976/582",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-northern-ireland-order-1976",
  "path": "article/21A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Solicitor practising whilst subject to a bankruptcy restrictions order or subject to a debt relief restrictions order",
  "text": "If a solicitor continues to practise as a solicitor while subject to a bankruptcy restrictions order or a debt relief restrictions order and without having had the suspension of his practising certificate terminated under Article 16(4) or (7) or, if his practising certificate has effect subject to terms and conditions by virtue of a direction under Article 16(4)(c) or (7), without complying with those terms or conditions,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ....",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 21A inserted (21.4.2015) by The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/159), art. 1, Sch. para. 5(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A inserted (7.3.2016) by The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/108), art. 1, Sch. para. 7(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A omitted (7.3.2016) by virtue of The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/108), art. 1, Sch. para. 7(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 21A inserted (7.3.2016) by The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/108), art. 1, Sch. para. 7(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1976/582/article/21A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:52.222859+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."
}