F1F2F3C1 PART IIIADMINISTRATION ORDERS

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Pt. III art. 21 substituted (27.3.2006) for Pt. III arts. 21 - 39 by Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1455 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 3(1) (with art. 4); S.R. 2006/21, art. 2 (with S.R. 2006/22arts. 2 - 7); specified substituted provisions amended (1.10.2009) by S.I. 2009/1941, arts. 2(1), 8, Sch. 1 para. 109 (with art. 10); and by S.I. 2009/1972, regs. 4(d)(iii), 7(b)

F2

mod. by S.I. 2005/1644

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Administrators

Vacation of office31

1

The administrator of a company may at any time be removed from office by order of the High Court and may, in the prescribed circumstances, resign his office by giving notice of his resignation to the Court.

2

The administrator shall vacate office if—

a

he ceases to be qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to the company, or

b

the administration order is discharged.

3

Where at any time a person ceases to be administrator,F4 the following paragraphs apply.

4 F5

His remuneration and any expenses properly incurred by him shall be charged on and paid out of any property of the company which is in his custody or under his control at that time in priority to any security to which Article 28(1) then applies.

5

Any sums payable in respect of debts or liabilities incurred, while he was administrator, under contracts entered intoF6. . . by him or a predecessor of his in the carrying out of his or the predecessor's functions shall be charged on and paid out of any such property as is mentioned in paragraph (4) in priority to any charge arising under that paragraph;F6. . .

F76

Any sums payable in respect of liabilities incurred, while he was administrator, under contracts of employment adopted by him or a predecessor of his in the carrying out of his or the predecessor's functions shall, to the extent that the liabilities are qualifying liabilities, be charged on and paid out of any such property as is mentioned in paragraph (4) and enjoy the same priority as any sums to which paragraph (5) applies; and for the purpose of this paragraph the administrator is not to be taken to have adopted a contract of employment by reason of anything done or omitted to be done within 14 days from his appointment.

7

For the purposes of paragraph (6), a liability under a contract of employment is a qualifying liability if—

a

it is a liability to pay a sum by way of wages or salary or contribution to an occupational pension scheme, and

b

it is in respect of services rendered wholly or partly after the adoption of the contract.

8

There shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (6) so much of any qualifying liability as represents payment in respect of services rendered before the adoption of the contract.

9

For the purposes of paragraphs (7) and (8)—

a

wages or salary payable in respect of a period of holiday or absence from work through sickness or other good cause are deemed to be wages or (as the case may be) salary in respect of services rendered in that period, and

b

a sum payable in lieu of holiday is deemed to be wages or (as the case may be) salary in respect of services rendered in the period by reference to which the holiday entitlement arose.

10

In paragraph (9)(a), the reference to wages or salary payable in respect of a period of holiday includes any sums which, if they had been paid, would have been treated for the purposes of the statutory provisions relating to social security as earnings in respect of that period.