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”.