{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenancy-deposit-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenancy-deposit-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/373",
  "legislation_title": "The Tenancy Deposit Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tenancy-deposit-schemes-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointment of Scheme Administrator",
  "text": "(1) The Department may appoint a person who has applied to the Department to establish and maintain a tenancy deposit scheme of a description prescribed in Part 3 where the Department has approved that application under the Regulations.\n(2) The Department must not approve an application where the applicant:—\n(a) has been convicted of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty;\n(b) is a bankrupt, or is the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order; or\n(ac) he is a person in relation to whom a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies or he is the subject of a debt relief restrictions order ; or\n(c) is disqualified from being a director of a company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(2)(b) 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. 50(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(ac) 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. 58(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/373/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:37.943961+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."
}