Insolvency Act 1986

386 Categories of preferential debts. E+W+S

(1)A reference in this Act to the preferential debts of a company or an individual is to the debts listed in Schedule 6 to this Act (money owed to the Inland Revenue for income tax deducted at source; VAT, [F1insurance premium tax,]car tax, betting and gaming duties [F2,beer duty][F3, lottery duty]; social security and pension scheme contributions; remuneration etc. of employees [F4;levies on coal and steel production]); and references to preferential creditors are to be read accordingly.

(2)In that Schedule “the debtor” means the company or the individual concerned.

(3)Schedule 6 is to be read with [F5Schedule 4 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993](occupational pension scheme contributions).

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 386(1) inserted (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 64, Sch. 7 Pt. III para. 7(2)

F4Words inserted by S.I. 1987/2093, reg. 2(1)(3)

F5Words in s. 386(3) substituted (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 190, Sch. 8 para. 18 (with s. 6(8)); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S.386 applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/1999, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. II