Section 411.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 8 applied (with modifications) (S.) (6.4.2001 to the extent that that Sch. does not apply to voluntary arrangements or administrations within the meaning of Pts. I, II of the Act) by S.S.I. 2001/128, reg. 4(1), Sch. 2
1E+W+SProvision for supplementing, in relation to the insolvency or winding up of companies, any provision made by or under section 117 of this Act (jurisdiction in relation to winding up).
2Provision for regulating the practice and procedure of any court exercising jurisdiction for the purposes of Parts I to VII of this Act or the Companies Act so far as relating to, and to matters connected with or arising out of, the insolvency or winding up of companies, being any provision that could be made by rules of court.
3E+W+SProvision requiring notice of any proceedings in connection with or arising out of the insolvency or winding up of a company to be given or published in the manner prescribed by the rules.
4E+W+SProvision with respect to the form, manner of serving, contents and proof of any petition, application, order, notice, statement or other document required to be presented, made, given, published or prepared under any enactment or subordinate legislation relating to, or to matters connected with or arising out of, the insolvency or winding up of companies.
5E+W+SProvision specifying the persons to whom any notice is to be given.
6E+W+SProvision for the registration of voluntary arrangements approved under Part I of this Act, including provision for the keeping and inspection of a register.
7E+W+SProvision as to the manner in which a provisional liquidator appointed under section 135 is to carry out his functions.
8E+W+SProvision with respect to the certification of any person as, and as to the proof that a person is, the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company.
9E+W+SThe following provision with respect to meetings of a company’s creditors, contributories or members—
(a)provision as to the manner of summoning a meeting (including provision as to how any power to require a meeting is to be exercised, provision as to the manner of determining the value of any debt or contribution for the purposes of any such power and provision making the exercise of any such power subject to the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover the expenses likely to be incurred in summoning and holding a meeting);
(b)provision specifying the time and place at which a meeting may be held and the period of notice required for a meeting;
(c)provision as to the procedure to be followed at a meeting (including the manner in which decisions may be reached by a meeting and the manner in which the value of any vote at a meeting is to be determined);
(d)provision for requiring a person who is or has been an officer of the company to attend a meeting;
(e)provision creating, in the prescribed circumstances, a presumption that a meeting has been duly summoned and held;
(f)provision as to the manner of proving the decisions of a meeting.
10(1)Provision as to the functions, membership and proceedings of a committee established under section 26, 49, 68, 101, 141 or 142 of this Act.
(2)The following provision with respect to the establishment of a committee under section 101, 141 or 142 of this Act, that is to say—
(a)provision for resolving differences between a meeting of the company’s creditors and a meeting of its contributories or members;
(b)provision authorising the establishment of the committee without a meeting of contributories in a case where a company is being wound up on grounds including its inability to pay its debts; and
(c)provision modifying the requirements of this Act with respect to the establishment of the committee in a case where a winding-up order has been made immediately upon the discharge of an administration order.
11E+W+SProvision as to the manner in which any requirement that may be imposed on a person under any of Parts I to VII of this Act by the official receiver, the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company or a special manager appointed under section 177 is to be so imposed.
12E+W+SProvision as to the debts that may be proved in a winding up, as to the manner and conditions of proving a debt and as to the manner and expenses of establishing the value of any debt or security.
13E+W+SProvision with respect to the manner of the distribution of the property of a company that is being wound up, including provision with respect to unclaimed funds and dividends.
14E+W+SProvision which, with or without modifications, applies in relation to the winding up of companies any enactment contained in Parts VIII to XI of this Act or in the M1Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985.
Marginal Citations
Yn ddilys o 15/09/2003
[F114AE+W+SProvision about the application of section 176A of this Act which may include, in particular—
(a)provision enabling a receiver to institute winding up proceedings;
(b)provision requiring a receiver to institute winding up proceedings.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 8 para. 14A inserted (15.9.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 248(3), 279, Sch. 17 para. 38(4) (with s. 249(1)-(3)(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))
Yn ddilys o 15/09/2003
[F214BProvision which—
(a)applies in relation to administration, with or without modifications, a provision of Parts IV to VII of this Act, or
(b)serves a purpose in relation to administration similar to a purpose that may be served by the rules in relation to winding up by virtue of a provision of this Schedule.]
Textual Amendments
F2Sch. 8 para. 14B inserted (15.9.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 248(3), 279, Sch. 17 para. 38(5) (with s. 249(1)-(3)(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))
15E+W+SProvision as to the amount, or manner of determining the amount, payable to the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company or a special manager appointed under section 177, by way of remuneration for the carrying out of functions in connection with or arising out of the insolvency or winding up of a company.
16E+W+SProvision with respect to the manner in which moneys received by the liquidator of a company in the course of carrying out his functions as such are to be invested or otherwise handled and with respect to the payment of interest on sums which, in pursuance of rules made by virtue of this paragraph, have been paid into the Insolvency Services Account.
Yn ddilys o 18/12/2003
[F316AE+W+SProvision enabling the Secretary of State to set the rate of interest paid on sums which have been paid into the Insolvency Services Account.]
Textual Amendments
F3S. 16A inserted (18.12.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 271(1), 279 (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/3340, art. 3
17E+W+SProvision as to the fees, costs, charges and other expenses that may be treated as the expenses of a winding up.
18E+W+SProvision as to the fees, costs, charges and other expenses that may be treated as properly incurred by the administrator or administrative receiver of a company.
19E+W+SProvision as to the fees, costs, charges and other expenses that may be incurred for any of the purposes of Part I of this Act or in the administration of any voluntary arrangement approved under that Part.
20E+W+SProvision requiring registrars and other officers of courts having jurisdiction in England and Wales in relation to, or to matters connected with or arising out of, the insolvency or winding up of companies—
(a)to keep books and other records with respect to the exercise of that jurisdiction, and
(b)to make returns to the Secretary of State of the business of those courts.
21E+W+SProvision requiring a creditor, member or contributory, or such a committee as is mentioned in paragraph 10 above, to be supplied (on payment in prescribed cases of the prescribed fee) with such information and with copies of such documents as may be prescribed.
22E+W+SProvision as to the manner in which public examinations under section 133 and 134 of this Act and proceedings under sections 236 and 237 are to be conducted, as to the circumstances in which records of such examinations or proceedings are to be made available to prescribed persons and as to the costs of such examinations and proceedings.
23E+W+SProvision imposing requirements with respect to—
(a)the preparation and keeping by the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company, or by the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part I of this Act, of prescribed books, accounts and other records;
(b)the production of those books, accounts and records for inspection by prescribed persons;
(c)the auditing of accounts kept by the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company, or the supervisor of such a voluntary arrangement; and
(d)the issue by the administrator or administrative receiver of a company of such a certificate as is mentioned in section 22(3)(b) of the M2Value Added Tax Act 1983 (refund of tax in cases of bad debts) and the supply of copies of the certificate to creditors of the company.
Marginal Citations
24E+W+SProvision requiring the person who is the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part I, when it appears to him that the voluntary arrangement has been fully implemented and that nothing remains to be done by him under the arrangement—
(a)to give notice of that fact to persons bound by the voluntary arrangement, and
(b)to report to those persons on the carrying out of the functions conferred on the supervisor of the arrangement.
25E+W+SProvision as to the manner in which the liquidator of a company is to act in relation to the books, papers and other records of the company, including provision authorising their disposal.
26E+W+SProvision imposing requirements in connection with the carrying out of functions under section 7(3) of the M3Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (including, in particular, requirements with respect to the making of periodic returns).
Marginal Citations
27Provision conferring power on the Secretary of State to make regulations with respect to so much of any matter that may be provided for in the rules as relates to the carrying out of the functions of the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company.
28E+W+SProvision conferring a discretion on the court.
29Provision conferring power on the court to make orders for the purpose of securing compliance with obligations imposed by or under section 22, 47, 66, 131, 143(2) or 235 of this Act or section 7(4) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
30E+W+SProvision making non-compliance with any of the rules a criminal offence.
31E+W+SProvision making different provision for different cases or descriptions of cases, including different provisions for different areas.