http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/101Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland; to make provision about the law of charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other institutions; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-01-29Expert Participation2022-03-30 PART 10 1011This section applies to any legal proceedings brought by a company to which section 100 applies to enforce a right arising out of a contract or conveyance in connection with which there was a failure to comply with that section.2The proceedings shall be dismissed if the defendant to the proceedings (“D”) shows—athat D has a claim against the claimant arsing out of the contract or conveyance that D has been unable to pursue by reason of the failure to comply with section 100, orbthat D has suffered some financial loss in connection with the contract or conveyance by reason of the failure to comply with that section,unless the court before which the proceedings are brought is satisfied that it is just and equitable to permit the proceedings to continue.3This section does not affect the right of any person to enforce such rights as that person may have against another in any proceedings brought by that person.