PART 4Amendments of Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Decisions of creditors’ meetings and preferential debtsI118

1

Article 232 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (decisions of creditors’ meeting)26 is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (6)—

a

omit the “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a);

b

after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

aa

any ordinary preferential debt of the debtor is to be paid otherwise than in priority to any secondary preferential debts that the debtor may have,

c

in sub-paragraph (b)—

i

for “a preferential debt”, substitute “an ordinary preferential debt”, and

ii

for “another”, substitute “another ordinary”;

d

at the end of sub-paragraph (b), insert—

or

c

a preferential creditor of the debtor is to be paid an amount in respect of a secondary preferential debt that bears to that debt a smaller proportion than is borne to another secondary preferential debt by the amount that is to be paid in respect of that other debt.

3

In paragraph (9), for “has” substitute “, “ordinary preferential debt” and “secondary preferential debt” each has”.