Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015

116 Disqualification as insolvency practitioner in Northern Ireland: bankruptcy, etc in England and Wales or Scotland U.K.

(1) Article 349 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19)) (persons not qualified to act as insolvency practitioners) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (4)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “bankrupt” insert “ under this Order or the 1986 Act ”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (aa), after “a debt relief order” insert “ under this Order or the 1986 Act ”.

(3) For paragraph (5) substitute—

“(5) A person is not qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner while there is in force in respect of that person—

(a) a bankruptcy restrictions order under this Order, the 1986 Act or the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985, or

(b) a debt relief restrictions order under this Order or the 1986 Act.

(6) In this Article “the 1986 Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986.”

(4) In consequence of the amendment made by subsection (3), omit—

(a) paragraph 4 of Schedule 6 to the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10));

(b) paragraph 4(9)(b) of the Schedule to the Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 16 (N.I.)).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 116 in force at 1.10.2015 by S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(i) (with Sch. para. 14)