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54 .F1—(1) The administrative receiver of a company—
(a)is deemed to be the company's agent, unless and until the company goes into liquidation;
(b)is personally liable on any contract entered into by him in the carrying out of his functions (except in so far as the contract otherwise provides) and[F2, to the extent of any qualifying liability,] on any contract of employment adopted by him in the carrying out of those functions; and
(c)is entitled in respect of that liability to an indemnity out of the assets of the company.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) the administrative receiver 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.
[F3(2A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), 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,
(b)it is incurred while the administrative receiver is in office, and
(c)it is in respect of services rendered wholly or partly after the adoption of the contract.
(2B) Where a sum payable in respect of a liability which is a qualifying liability for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) is payable in respect of services rendered partly before and partly after the adoption of the contract, liability under paragraph (1)(b) shall only extend to so much of the sum as is payable in respect of services rendered after the adoption of the contract.
(2C) For the purposes of paragraphs (2A) and (2B)—
(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.
(2D) In paragraph (2C)(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.]
(3) This Article does not limit any right to indemnity which the administrative receiver would have apart from it, nor limit his liability on contracts entered into or adopted without authority, nor confer any right to indemnity in respect of that liability.
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