Entitlement to vote
- Creditors must submit voting details and proxies in advance
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2021
United Kingdom
The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021
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Holders of negotiable instruments
- Do not vote on bills of exchange or promissory notes unless you treat prior liabilities as security
Pre-postal administration costs
- Apply to court for approval before paying pre-administration costs
Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator
- Notify and advertise appointment as replacement postal administrator, clearly marking it as a replacement
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Citation and commencement
Construction and interpretation
Extent
Affidavit in support of administration application
Form of application
Contents of application and affidavit in support
Filing of application
Service of application
Notice to Enforcement of Judgments Office
Manner in which service to be effected
Proof of service
The hearing
Notice of postal administration order
Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment
Notice requiring statement of affairs
Verification and filing
Limited disclosure
Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time
Expenses of statement of affairs
Postal administrator’s proposals
Limited disclosure of paragraph 50 statement
Creditors’ meetings generally
The chair at meetings
Creditors’ meeting for nomination of alternative liquidator
Notice of meetings by advertisement only
Admission and rejection of claims
Secured creditors
Hire-purchase, conditional sale and chattel leasing agreements
Resolutions
Minutes
Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals
Reports to creditors
Venue and conduct of company meeting
Authority to dispose of property
Priority of expenses of postal administration
Distribution to creditors generally
Debts of insolvent company to rank equally
Supplementary provisions as to dividend
Division of unsold assets
Proving a debt
Costs of proving
Postal administrator to allow inspection of proofs
New postal administrator appointed
Admission and rejection of proofs for dividend
Appeal against decision on proof
Withdrawal or variation of proof
Expunging of proof by the court
Estimate of quantum
Negotiable instruments, etc
Secured creditors
Discounts
Mutual credits and set-off
Debt in foreign currency
Payments of a periodical nature
Interest
Debt payable at future time
Value of security
Surrender for non-disclosure
Redemption by postal administrator
Test of security’s value
Realisation of security by creditor
Notice of proposed distribution
Admission or rejection of proofs
Postponement or cancellation of dividend
Declaration of dividend
Notice of declaration of a dividend
Payments of dividends and related matters
Notice of no dividend, or no further dividend
Proof altered after payment of dividend
Secured creditors
Disqualification from dividend
Assignment of right to dividend
Debt payable at future time
Fixing of remuneration
Final progress reports
Application to court
Notification by postal administrator of court order
Moving from postal administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation
Moving from postal administration to dissolution
Provision of information to the Secretary of State
Grounds for resignation
Notice of intention to resign
Notice of resignation
Application to court to remove postal administrator from office
Notice of vacation of office when postal administrator ceases to be qualified to act
Postal administrator deceased
Application to replace
Notification and advertisement of appointment of joint postal administrator
Notification to Registrar
Postal administrator’s duties on vacating office
Preliminary
Form and contents of application
Application under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order to disapply Article 150A of the 1989 Order
Filing and service of application
Notice of application under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order
Hearings without notice
Hearing of application
Affidavits—general
Filing and service of affidavits
Use of reports
Adjournment of hearing; directions
Nomination and appointment of shorthand writers
Remuneration
Enforcement of court orders
Orders enforcing compliance with the Rules
Warrants under Article 200 of the 1989 Order
Court file
Application of Chapter 5
Requirement to tax costs
Procedure where taxation required
Costs paid otherwise than out of the assets of the company
Award of costs against postal administrator
Applications for costs
Costs and expenses of witnesses
Final costs certificate
Introductory
Appointment of another person to act
Affidavit in support of application
Service of notices following appointment
Appeals and reviews of postal administration orders
Procedure on appeal
Principal court rules and practice to apply
Right of audience
Formal defects
Service of orders staying proceedings
Payment into court
Discovery
Office copies of documents
Definition of “proxy”
Issue and use of forms
Use of proxies at meetings
Retention of proxies
Right of inspection
Proxy-holder with financial interest
Company representation
Preliminary
Form and contents of application
Order for examination, etc
Procedure for examination
Record of examination
Costs of proceedings under Article 200
Power of Department to regulate certain matters
Costs, expenses, etc
Provable debts
False claim of status as creditor, etc
Punishment of offences
Application
Personal delivery of documents
Postal delivery of documents
Non-receipt of notice of meeting
Notice etc to solicitors
Application
Proof of sending etc
Use of websites by postal administrator
Special provision on account of expense as to website
Notice etc to joint postal administrators
Application of Order 65 of the Rules of the Court of Judicature to service of court documents within the jurisdiction
Service on joint postal administrators
Application of Order 65 of the Rules of the Court of Judicature to service of court documents outside the jurisdiction
Quorum at meeting of creditors
Remote attendance at meetings of creditors
Action where person excluded
Indication to excluded person
Complaint
Forms for use in postal administration proceedings
Contents of notices to be gazetted under the 1989 Order or the Rules
Omission of unobtainable information
The Gazette—general
Notices otherwise advertised under the 1989 Order or the Rules
Non-Gazette notices—other provisions
Application of this Chapter
Information to be contained in all notifications to the registrar
Notifications relating to the office of postal administrator
Notifications relating to documents
Notifications relating to court orders
Returns or reports of meetings
Notifications relating to other events
Notifications of more than one nature
Notifications made to other persons at the same time
Confidentiality of documents—grounds for refusing inspection
Right to copy documents
Charges for copy documents
Right to have list of creditors
Time
Postal administrator’s security
Notice of order under Article 150A(5) of the 1989 Order
Interpretation
“The appropriate fee”
“Authorised deposit-taker and former authorised deposit-taker”
“The court”; “the Master”
“Debt”, “liability”
“Petitioner”
“Venue”
Expressions used generally
Application
Application of the 1989 Order
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