Insolvency Act 1985

Preliminary

95 Preliminary

(1) The following provisions of this Chapter shall apply—

(a) where a company goes into liquidation;

(b) where an administration order is made in relation to a company; and

(c) except in the case of sections 101 to 105, where an administrative receiver of a company is appointed;

and in those provisions " the office holder " means the liquidator, the administrator or the administrative receiver, as the case may be.

(2) Sections 96 to 100 and 105 below shall apply where a provisional liquidator is appointed as they apply where a company goes into liquidation, and references in those sections to the office holder shall be construed accordingly.

(3) Section 97 below shall apply where a composition or scheme approved by meetings summoned under section 22 above has taken effect as it applies where a company goes into liquidation as if references in that section to the office holder were references to the supervisor of the composition or scheme.