UK Statutory Instrument 2006 United Kingdom

The Energy Administration (Scotland) Rules 2006

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What's here

30 compliance obligations

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

  • Director or Officer 22
  • Trader 1

Plus 7 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

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What this Act requires

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s.rule 10

Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence

  • Submit a statement of affairs (or statement of concurrence) in energy administration Director or Officer
s.rule 11

Limited disclosure

  • Energy administrator must manage limited disclosure of statement of affairs Director or Officer
s.rule 13

Expenses of statement of affairs

  • Energy administrator must pay reasonable expenses incurred for statement of affairs Director or Officer
s.rule 14

Energy administrator’s proposals

  • Energy administrator must prepare and distribute statement of proposals with mandatory content Director or Officer
s.rule 15

Meetings generally and notice

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Energy administrator must give 21 days' notice of meetings to creditors Statutory regulator
s.rule 17

The chairman at meetings

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Energy administrator must chair creditors' meetings or nominate a deputy Statutory regulator
s.rule 20

Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Energy administrator must hold creditor meeting if 25% demand alternative liquidator Crown / Minister / Government department
s.rule 23

Disposal of secured property

  • Energy administrator must send court order to secured parties and file with registrar Director or Officer
s.rule 26

Revision of the energy administrator’s proposals

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Send revised proposals to creditors and members Crown / Minister / Government department
s.rule 27

Reports to creditors

  • Send progress reports to creditors and other parties Director or Officer
s.rule 31

Adjudication of claims

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Energy administrator must accept or reject creditor claims and record decisions Statutory regulator
s.rule 34

Amount which may be claimed generally

  • Calculate your claim amount as principal plus interest due at energy administration date Trader
s.rule 39

Order of priority in distribution

  • Energy administrator must distribute assets in statutory priority order Director or Officer
s.rule 41

Assets to be distributed

  • Make up accounts of asset dealings and determine accounting periods Director or Officer
s.rule 42

Procedure after accounting period

  • Submit accounts, scheme of division and fee claim to court after each accounting period Director or Officer
s.rule 45

Application to court

  • Notify interested parties of application to end energy administration Director or Officer
s.rule 46

Notification by energy administrator of court order

  • Notify Companies House when energy administration ends Director or Officer
s.rule 47

Moving from energy administration to creditors' voluntary liquidation

  • Send notice and final report when moving from energy administration to creditors' voluntary liquidation Director or Officer
s.rule 48

Moving from energy administration to dissolution

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • GEMA must notify Secretary of State before dissolution notice Statutory regulator
s.rule 49

Provision of information to the Secretary of State

  • Energy administrator must provide debt and shortfall details to Secretary of State within 5 business days Director or Officer
s.rule 51

Notice of intention to resign

  • Give 7 days' notice before resigning as energy administrator Director or Officer
s.rule 60

Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Energy administrator must notify creditors of court order disapplying prescribed part Statutory regulator
s.rule 64

Retention of proxies

  • Energy administrator must retain all proxies in the sederunt book Director or Officer
s.rule 65

Right of inspection

  • Energy administrator must allow inspection of proxies at reasonable times Director or Officer
s.rule 79

Power of court to cure defects in procedure

  • Record court decisions in the sederunt book Director or Officer
s.rule 8

Notification and advertisement of energy administrator’s appointment

  • Advertise and notify appointment as energy administrator Director or Officer
s.rule 80

Sederunt book

  • Maintain a sederunt book and keep records of the energy administration Director or Officer
s.rule 81

Disposal of protected energy company’s books, papers and other records

  • Energy administrator must hand over company records, dispose of them, and report unclaimed assets Director or Officer
s.rule 82

Information about time spent on a case

  • Provide time and cost information on request Director or Officer
s.rule 9

Notice requiring statement of affairs

  • Send notice requiring statement of affairs to relevant persons Director or Officer
Browse 52 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
s.rule 1

Citation and commencement

s.rule 12

Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time

s.rule 16

Adjournment

s.rule 18

Quorum at meeting of creditors

s.rule 19

Chairman of meeting as proxy holder

s.rule 2

Construction and interpretation

s.rule 21

Entitlement to vote (creditors and members)

s.rule 22

Hire-purchase, conditional sale and hiring agreements

s.rule 24

Resolutions

s.rule 25

Report of Meeting

s.rule 28

Submission of claims

s.rule 29

Secured debts

s.rule 3

Application

s.rule 30

Entitlement to vote and draw dividend

s.rule 32

Evidence in relation to claims

s.rule 33

Criminal offences in relation to false claims or evidence

s.rule 35

Debts depending on contingency

s.rule 36

Liabilities and rights of co-obligants

s.rule 37

Claims in foreign currency

s.rule 38

Application of Part and general

s.rule 4

Form of application

s.rule 40

Expenses of the energy administration

s.rule 43

Unclaimed Dividends

s.rule 44

Final progress reports

s.rule 5

Service of petition

s.rule 50

Grounds for resignation

s.rule 52

Notice of resignation

s.rule 53

Application to court to remove energy administrator from office

s.rule 54

Incapacity to act, through death or otherwise

s.rule 55

Application to replace

s.rule 56

Joint or concurrent appointments

s.rule 57

Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement energy administrator

s.rule 58

Hand-over of assets to successor energy administrator

s.rule 59

Application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act to disapply section 176A of the 1986 Act

s.rule 6

Expenses

s.rule 61

Definition of “proxy”

s.rule 62

Form of proxy

s.rule 63

Use of proxy at meeting

s.rule 66

Proxy-holder with financial interest

s.rule 67

Representation of corporations

s.rule 68

Giving of notices, etc.

s.rule 69

Sending by post

s.rule 7

Notice of dismissal of application for an energy administration order

s.rule 70

Certificate of giving notice, etc.

s.rule 71

Validity of proceedings

s.rule 72

Evidence of proceedings at meetings

s.rule 73

Right to list of creditors and copy documents

s.rule 74

Confidentiality of documents

s.rule 75

Energy administrator’s caution

s.rule 76

Punishment of offences

s.rule 77

Forms for use in energy administration proceedings

s.rule 78

Fees, expenses, etc.

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