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Company law in Northern Ireland

Company formation, governance, directors, ownership, filings, and corporate obligations. Every result links to its stored legal text and available official source evidence.

379 matching statutes

• Northern Ireland

  Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

  4 provisions

  This provision defines when a building is an HMO and sets out the main licensing and enforcement rules for HMOs.

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  The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

  6 provisions

  This segment mainly sets commencement rules and gives the Department and related officials powers around traffic enforcement, approved courses, penalty-point reductions, and financial penalty deposits.

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  Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976

  4 provisions

  This provision defines key terms and sets out core sex discrimination and harassment rules for employment, contract work, and appointments in Northern Ireland.

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  Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

  8 provisions

  This provision starts the Order, defines many road-traffic terms, and sets out licensing, testing, disability-notification, and related offence rules.

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  Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014

  5 provisions

  Councils must keep a constitution, publish it, give copies on request and fee, and make standing orders for council business. The Department has regulation-making powers and deadlines for certain council governance arrangements.

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  Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

  7 provisions

  This provision sets the child-welfare test for adoption decisions, defines adoption service terms, assigns duties to adoption authorities and the Department, and creates several offences and restrictions around placement, removal, and contact.

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  Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977

  8 provisions

  This provision sets out how regional and district rates are made, levied, demanded, and sometimes refunded in Northern Ireland.

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  Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

  4 provisions

  This provision lets district councils make and enforce road gating orders, creates several litter and vehicle-related offences, and sets fixed penalties and other enforcement rules.

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  Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016

  2 provisions

  This provision adds early conciliation steps before certain tribunal claims, gives the Department power to make related regulations, and introduces duties on employers for gender pay reporting, careers guidance, and some whistleblowing and zero-hours matters.

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  The Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

  4 provisions

  This part sets out key definitions and makes racial discrimination and racial harassment unlawful in many settings, including employment, education, public services, goods and services, premises, associations, and barristers’ pupillage.

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  Equal Pay Act (Northern Ireland) 1970

  1 provisions

  Women’s employment contracts in Northern Ireland are treated as including an equality clause if one is missing, and that clause can equalize certain pay and term differences against men in the same employment.

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  The Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

  3 provisions

  This Order amends Northern Ireland rates rules, valuation lists, rate relief, appeals, and related valuation procedures.

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