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Insolvency (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

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10.—(1) The Insolvency Order is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 31 (vacation of office by administrator), as continued in operation by virtue of Article 4(1) of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (special administration regimes), paragraph (10) is repealed (what “wages or salary” includes for the purposes of paragraph (9)(a)).

(3) In Article 54 (receivership: agency and liability for contracts), paragraph (2D) is repealed (what “wages or salary” includes for the purposes of paragraph (2C)(a)).

(4) In Schedule B1 (administration of companies) in paragraph 100 (vacation of office by administrator: charges and liabilities), sub-paragraph (6)(d) is repealed (what “wages or salary” includes for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(c)) but not the “and” following it.

(5) In Schedule 4 (categories of preferential debt), in paragraph 15 (what “wages or salary” includes for the purposes of determining what is a category 5 preferential debt), paragraph (b) is repealed including the preceding “and”.

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