Judgments Enforcement (Northern Ireland) Order 1981

Certificate of unenforceabilityN.I.

19.  Where the Office has issued a notice of unenforceability it shall give the debtor and the creditor to whom the notice has been issued an opportunity of being heard as to why a certificate of unenforceability should not be granted; and if, after giving the debtor and the creditor such an opportunity, the Office is satisfied that the money judgment in respect of which the notice of unenforceability has been issued cannot within a reasonable time be enforced, or that it is not reasonably practicable to enforce it further within such a time, the Office shall forthwith—

(a)grant a certificate of unenforceability in respect of that judgment or in respect of so much of it as cannot reasonably be enforced; and

(b)publish notice of the grant of that certificate in such manner as may be prescribed by rules;

but if not so satisfied shall refuse to grant a certificate.