Section 87: Northern Ireland

Postal Services Act 2011 · 2011 c. 5View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Special administration regime

This section makes provision about the application of this Part to Northern Ireland.

Any reference to any provision of the 1986 Act is to have effect as a reference to the corresponding provision of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.

Section 85(4) is to have effect as if the reference to Northern Ireland were to England and Wales or Scotland.

Section 86 is to have effect as if—

in subsection (1)—
the reference to the Secretary of State were to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, and
the reference to the Lord Chief Justice were to the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, and
for subsection (4) there were substituted—4The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland may nominate—to exercise the function of the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland under subsection (1).athe holder of one of the offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, orba Lord Justice of Appeal (as defined in section 88 of that Act),

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