Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 16 applied (with modifications) (5.7.2018) by The Housing Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/719), rules 1.1, 3.29 (with rule 1.2)
C2Pt. 16 applied (with modifications) (31.1.2019) by The Education Administration Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/1135), rules 1, 3.29 (with rule 1.2)
C3Pt. 16 applied in part (temp.) (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 4 para. 23(1)(b) (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), Sch. 4 para. 12)
C4Pt. 16 applied (temp.) (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 4 para. 41(b) (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), Sch. 4 para. 12)
C5Pt. 16 applied in part (with modifications) (30.9.2021) by S.I. 2014/229, art. 2(2A), Sch. 1A paras. 1(4)(5), 11(1)(b), 29(b), 38 (as inserted by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Administration) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1048), arts. 1(1), 2)
C6Pt. 16 applied (with modifications) (18.7.2023) by The Relevant Licensee Nuclear Company Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/712), rules 1(2)(a), 30, 33 (with rule 2)
16.6.—(1) A person attending a meeting is entitled, immediately before or in the course of the meeting, to inspect proxies and associated documents delivered to the chair or to any other person in accordance with the notice convening the meeting.
(2) The chair must—
(a)retain the proxies used for voting at a meeting where the chair is the office-holder, or
(b)deliver them as soon as reasonably practicable after the meeting to the office-holder.
(3) The office-holder must allow proxies, so long as they remain in the office-holder's hands, to be inspected at all reasonable times on any business day by—
(a)a creditor, in the case of proxies used at a meeting of creditors;
(b)a member of the company or a contributory, in the case of proxies used at a meeting of the company, or a meeting of contributories;
(c)a director of the company in the case of corporate insolvency proceedings; or
(d)the debtor or the bankrupt in the case of personal insolvency proceedings.
(4) A creditor in paragraph (3)(a) is a person who has delivered a proof in the proceedings, but does not include a person whose claim has been wholly rejected.
(5) However the right of inspection is subject to rule 1.58 (confidentiality of documents – grounds for refusing inspection).