The Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

PART I INTRODUCTORY

Title and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005.

(2) Parts II, III and IV shall come into operation on such day or days as the Department may by order appoint.

(3) An order under paragraph (2) may contain such transitional or saving provisions as the Department thinks necessary or expedient.

Interpretation

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33) applies to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

(2) For the purposes of this Order, section 20(2) of that Act applies as if—

(a) the words “the liability of whose members is limited” were omitted; and

(b) any reference to a director included a reference to a shadow director and (where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members) to a member of the body in connection with his functions of management.

(3) In this Order—

“the Department” means the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment;

“the 1986 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (NI 6);

“the 1990 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (NI 5).