| Guvnor

Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 1 of 31 obligations carry imprisonment (3 months). 30 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

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Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Director or Officer22 Trader1 Any Person1

Plus 7 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 416 duties

Companies Act 2006 243 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 133 duties

Companies Act 1985 85 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 62 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.rule 10 Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence Regulated

Submit a statement of affairs (or statement of concurrence) in energy administrationDirector or Officer

s.rule 11 Limited disclosure Regulated

Energy administrator must manage limited disclosure of statement of affairsDirector or Officer

s.rule 13 Expenses of statement of affairs Regulated

Energy administrator must pay reasonable expenses incurred for statement of affairsDirector or Officer

s.rule 14 Energy administrator’s proposals Regulated

Energy administrator must prepare and distribute statement of proposals with mandatory contentDirector or Officer

s.rule 15 Meetings generally and notice Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Energy administrator must give 21 days' notice of meetings to creditorsStatutory regulator

s.rule 17 The chairman at meetings Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Energy administrator must chair creditors' meetings or nominate a deputyStatutory regulator

s.rule 20 Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Energy administrator must hold creditor meeting if 25% demand alternative liquidatorCrown / Minister / Government department

s.rule 23 Disposal of secured property Regulated

Energy administrator must send court order to secured parties and file with registrarDirector or Officer

s.rule 26 Revision of the energy administrator’s proposals Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Send revised proposals to creditors and membersCrown / Minister / Government department

s.rule 27 Reports to creditors Regulated

Send progress reports to creditors and other partiesDirector or Officer

s.rule 31 Adjudication of claims Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Energy administrator must accept or reject creditor claims and record decisionsStatutory regulator

s.rule 32 Evidence in relation to claims Imprisonment

Fail to attend court-ordered examination in energy administrationAny Person

s.rule 34 Amount which may be claimed generally Regulated

Calculate your claim amount as principal plus interest due at energy administration dateTrader

s.rule 39 Order of priority in distribution Regulated

Energy administrator must distribute assets in statutory priority orderDirector or Officer

s.rule 41 Assets to be distributed Regulated

Make up accounts of asset dealings and determine accounting periodsDirector or Officer

s.rule 42 Procedure after accounting period Regulated

Submit accounts, scheme of division and fee claim to court after each accounting periodDirector or Officer

s.rule 45 Application to court Regulated

Notify interested parties of application to end energy administrationDirector or Officer

s.rule 46 Notification by energy administrator of court order Regulated

Notify Companies House when energy administration endsDirector or Officer

s.rule 47 Moving from energy administration to creditors' voluntary liquidation Regulated

Send notice and final report when moving from energy administration to creditors' voluntary liquidationDirector or Officer

s.rule 48 Moving from energy administration to dissolution Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

GEMA must notify Secretary of State before dissolution noticeStatutory regulator

s.rule 49 Provision of information to the Secretary of State Regulated

Energy administrator must provide debt and shortfall details to Secretary of State within 5 business daysDirector or Officer

s.rule 51 Notice of intention to resign Regulated

Give 7 days' notice before resigning as energy administratorDirector or Officer

s.rule 60 Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Energy administrator must notify creditors of court order disapplying prescribed partStatutory regulator

s.rule 64 Retention of proxies Regulated

Energy administrator must retain all proxies in the sederunt bookDirector or Officer

s.rule 65 Right of inspection Regulated

Energy administrator must allow inspection of proxies at reasonable timesDirector or Officer

s.rule 79 Power of court to cure defects in procedure Regulated

Record court decisions in the sederunt bookDirector or Officer

s.rule 8 Notification and advertisement of energy administrator’s appointment Regulated

Advertise and notify appointment as energy administratorDirector or Officer

s.rule 80 Sederunt book Regulated

Maintain a sederunt book and keep records of the energy administrationDirector or Officer

s.rule 81 Disposal of protected energy company’s books, papers and other records Regulated

Energy administrator must hand over company records, dispose of them, and report unclaimed assetsDirector or Officer

s.rule 82 Information about time spent on a case Regulated

Provide time and cost information on requestDirector or Officer

s.rule 9 Notice requiring statement of affairs Regulated

Send notice requiring statement of affairs to relevant personsDirector or Officer

51 other provisions — procedural and definitional

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 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.

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The Energy Administration (Scotland) Rules 2006

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