The Insolvency (Scotland) Rules 1986

Submission of claims

4.15.—(1) A creditor, in order to obtain an adjudication as to his entitlement -

(a) to vote at any meeting of the creditors in the liquidation; or

(b) to a dividend (so far as funds are available) out of the assets of the company in respect of any accounting period,

shall submit his claim to the liquidator -

(a) at or before the meeting; or, as the case may be,

(b) not later than 8 weeks before the end of the accounting period.

(2) A creditor shall submit his claim by producing to the liquidator -

(a) a statement of claim in the form required by Rule 7.30 and Schedule 5; and[Form 4.7 (Scot)]

(b) an account or voucher (according to the nature of the debt claimed) which constitutes prima facie evidence of the debt,

but the liquidator may dispense with any requirement of this paragraph in respect of any debt or any class of debt.

(3) A claim submitted by a creditor, which has been accepted in whole or in part by the liquidator for the purpose of voting at a meeting or of drawing a dividend in respect of any accounting period, shall be deemed to have been resubmitted for the purpose of obtaining an adjudication as to his entitlement both to vote at any subsequent meeting and (so far as funds are available) to a dividend in respect of an accounting period or, as the case may be, any subsequent accounting period.

(4) A creditor, who has submitted a claim, may at any time submit a further claim specifying a different amount for his claim:

Provided that a secured creditor shall not be entitled to produce a further claim specifying a different value for the security at any time after the liquidator has required the creditor to discharge, or convey or assign, the security under paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 1 to the Bankruptcy Act, as applied by the following Rule.

(5) Votes are calculated according to the amount of a creditor's debt as at the date of the commencement of the winding up within the meaning of section 129, deducting any amounts paid in respect of that debt after that date.

(6) In this Rule and in Rule 4.16, including the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act applied by that Rule, any reference to the liquidator includes a reference to the chairman of the meeting.