Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 2021/257 United Kingdom

The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Trader2 Director or Officer2

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Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts
Companies Act 2006 243 duties
Companies Act 1985 85 duties
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Companies Act 2006 126 duties

What it requires

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s.art026 Entitlement to vote Regulated
  • Creditors must submit voting details and proxies in advanceTrader
s.art029 Holders of negotiable instruments Regulated
  • Do not vote on bills of exchange or promissory notes unless you treat prior liabilities as securityTrader
s.art038 Pre-postal administration costs Regulated
  • Apply to court for approval before paying pre-administration costsDirector or Officer
s.art091 Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator Regulated
  • Notify and advertise appointment as replacement postal administrator, clearly marking it as a replacementDirector or Officer
196 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001 Citation and commencement
s.art002 Construction and interpretation
s.art003 Extent
s.art004 Affidavit in support of administration application
s.art005 Form of application
s.art006 Contents of application and affidavit in support
s.art007 Filing of application
s.art008 Service of application
s.art009 Notice to Enforcement of Judgments Office
s.art010 Manner in which service to be effected
s.art011 Proof of service
s.art012 The hearing
s.art013 Notice of postal administration order
s.art014 Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment
s.art015 Notice requiring statement of affairs
s.art016 Verification and filing
s.art017 Limited disclosure
s.art018 Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time
s.art019 Expenses of statement of affairs
s.art020 Postal administrator’s proposals
s.art021 Limited disclosure of paragraph 50 statement
s.art022 Creditors’ meetings generally
s.art023 The chair at meetings
s.art024 Creditors’ meeting for nomination of alternative liquidator
s.art025 Notice of meetings by advertisement only
s.art027 Admission and rejection of claims
s.art028 Secured creditors
s.art030 Hire-purchase, conditional sale and chattel leasing agreements
s.art031 Resolutions
s.art032 Minutes
s.art033 Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals
s.art034 Reports to creditors
s.art035 Venue and conduct of company meeting
s.art036 Authority to dispose of property
s.art037 Priority of expenses of postal administration
s.art039 Distribution to creditors generally
s.art040 Debts of insolvent company to rank equally
s.art041 Supplementary provisions as to dividend
s.art042 Division of unsold assets
s.art043 Proving a debt
s.art044 Costs of proving
s.art045 Postal administrator to allow inspection of proofs
s.art046 New postal administrator appointed
s.art047 Admission and rejection of proofs for dividend
s.art048 Appeal against decision on proof
s.art049 Withdrawal or variation of proof
s.art050 Expunging of proof by the court
s.art051 Estimate of quantum
s.art052 Negotiable instruments, etc
s.art053 Secured creditors
s.art054 Discounts
s.art055 Mutual credits and set-off
s.art056 Debt in foreign currency
s.art057 Payments of a periodical nature
s.art058 Interest
s.art059 Debt payable at future time
s.art060 Value of security
s.art061 Surrender for non-disclosure
s.art062 Redemption by postal administrator
s.art063 Test of security’s value
s.art064 Realisation of security by creditor
s.art065 Notice of proposed distribution
s.art066 Admission or rejection of proofs
s.art067 Postponement or cancellation of dividend
s.art068 Declaration of dividend
s.art069 Notice of declaration of a dividend
s.art070 Payments of dividends and related matters
s.art071 Notice of no dividend, or no further dividend
s.art072 Proof altered after payment of dividend
s.art073 Secured creditors
s.art074 Disqualification from dividend
s.art075 Assignment of right to dividend
s.art076 Debt payable at future time
s.art077 Fixing of remuneration
s.art078 Final progress reports
s.art079 Application to court
s.art080 Notification by postal administrator of court order
s.art081 Moving from postal administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation
s.art082 Moving from postal administration to dissolution
s.art083 Provision of information to the Secretary of State
s.art084 Grounds for resignation
s.art085 Notice of intention to resign
s.art086 Notice of resignation
s.art087 Application to court to remove postal administrator from office
s.art088 Notice of vacation of office when postal administrator ceases to be qualified to act
s.art089 Postal administrator deceased
s.art090 Application to replace
s.art092 Notification and advertisement of appointment of joint postal administrator
s.art093 Notification to Registrar
s.art094 Postal administrator’s duties on vacating office
s.art095 Preliminary
s.art096 Form and contents of application
s.art097 Application under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order to disapply Article 150A of the 1989 Order
s.art098 Filing and service of application
s.art099 Notice of application under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order
s.art100 Hearings without notice
s.art101 Hearing of application
s.art102 Affidavits—general
s.art103 Filing and service of affidavits
s.art104 Use of reports
s.art105 Adjournment of hearing; directions
s.art106 Nomination and appointment of shorthand writers
s.art107 Remuneration
s.art108 Enforcement of court orders
s.art109 Orders enforcing compliance with the Rules
s.art110 Warrants under Article 200 of the 1989 Order
s.art111 Court file
s.art112 Application of Chapter 5
s.art113 Requirement to tax costs
s.art114 Procedure where taxation required
s.art115 Costs paid otherwise than out of the assets of the company
s.art116 Award of costs against postal administrator
s.art117 Applications for costs
s.art118 Costs and expenses of witnesses
s.art119 Final costs certificate
s.art120 Introductory
s.art121 Appointment of another person to act
s.art122 Affidavit in support of application
s.art123 Service of notices following appointment
s.art124 Appeals and reviews of postal administration orders
s.art125 Procedure on appeal
s.art126 Principal court rules and practice to apply
s.art127 Right of audience
s.art128 Formal defects
s.art129 Service of orders staying proceedings
s.art130 Payment into court
s.art131 Discovery
s.art132 Office copies of documents
s.art133 Definition of “proxy”
s.art134 Issue and use of forms
s.art135 Use of proxies at meetings
s.art136 Retention of proxies
s.art137 Right of inspection
s.art138 Proxy-holder with financial interest
s.art139 Company representation
s.art140 Preliminary
s.art141 Form and contents of application
s.art142 Order for examination, etc
s.art143 Procedure for examination
s.art144 Record of examination
s.art145 Costs of proceedings under Article 200
s.art146 Power of Department to regulate certain matters
s.art147 Costs, expenses, etc
s.art148 Provable debts
s.art149 False claim of status as creditor, etc
s.art150 Punishment of offences
s.art151 Application
s.art152 Personal delivery of documents
s.art153 Postal delivery of documents
s.art154 Non-receipt of notice of meeting
s.art155 Notice etc to solicitors
s.art156 Application
s.art157 Proof of sending etc
s.art158 Use of websites by postal administrator
s.art159 Special provision on account of expense as to website
s.art160 Notice etc to joint postal administrators
s.art161 Application of Order 65 of the Rules of the Court of Judicature to service of court documents within the jurisdiction
s.art162 Service on joint postal administrators
s.art163 Application of Order 65 of the Rules of the Court of Judicature to service of court documents outside the jurisdiction
s.art164 Quorum at meeting of creditors
s.art165 Remote attendance at meetings of creditors
s.art166 Action where person excluded
s.art167 Indication to excluded person
s.art168 Complaint
s.art169 Forms for use in postal administration proceedings
s.art170 Contents of notices to be gazetted under the 1989 Order or the Rules
s.art171 Omission of unobtainable information
s.art172 The Gazette—general
s.art173 Notices otherwise advertised under the 1989 Order or the Rules
s.art174 Non-Gazette notices—other provisions
s.art175 Application of this Chapter
s.art176 Information to be contained in all notifications to the registrar
s.art177 Notifications relating to the office of postal administrator
s.art178 Notifications relating to documents
s.art179 Notifications relating to court orders
s.art180 Returns or reports of meetings
s.art181 Notifications relating to other events
s.art182 Notifications of more than one nature
s.art183 Notifications made to other persons at the same time
s.art184 Confidentiality of documents—grounds for refusing inspection
s.art185 Right to copy documents
s.art186 Charges for copy documents
s.art187 Right to have list of creditors
s.art188 Time
s.art189 Postal administrator’s security
s.art190 Notice of order under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order
s.art191 Interpretation
s.art192 “The appropriate fee”
s.art193 “Authorised deposit-taker and former authorised deposit-taker”
s.art194 “The court”; “the Master”
s.art195 “Debt”, “liability”
s.art196 “Petitioner”
s.art197 “Venue”
s.art198 Expressions used generally
s.art199 Application
s.art200 Application of the 1989 Order

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