| Guvnor

Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

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Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Trader2 Director or Officer1 Applicant1

Plus 1 duty 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.

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

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

Applicant — also bound by 307 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 46 duties

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 42 duties

The Land Registration Rules 2003 25 duties

Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 (Aircrew) 20 duties

Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 18 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 Manner in which service to be effected Regulated

Serve the application at least 5 business days before the hearingApplicant

s.rule 143 Company representation Regulated

Produce evidence of authority to represent corporation at meetingsTrader

s.rule 21 Limited disclosure of paragraph 49 statement Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Postal administrator must apply to court if disclosure risks violence or prejudiceStatutory regulator

s.rule 26 Entitlement to vote Regulated

Creditors must submit debt details and proxy to vote at meetingsTrader

s.rule 35 Venue and conduct of company meeting Regulated

Properly summon and conduct company meetings in postal administrationDirector or Officer

206 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.rule 1 Citation and Commencement

s.rule 100 Hearings without notice

s.rule 101 Hearing of application

s.rule 102 Witness statements—general

s.rule 103 Filing and service of witness statements

s.rule 104 Use of reports

s.rule 105 Adjournment of hearing; directions

s.rule 106 General power of transfer

s.rule 107 Proceedings commenced in wrong court

s.rule 108 Applications for transfer

s.rule 109 Procedure following order for transfer

s.rule 11 Proof of service

s.rule 110 Nomination and appointment of shorthand writers

s.rule 111 Remuneration

s.rule 112 Enforcement of court orders

s.rule 113 Orders enforcing compliance with the Rules

s.rule 114 Warrants under section 236 of the 1986 Act

s.rule 115 Court file

s.rule 116 Application of Chapter 5

s.rule 117 Requirement to assess costs by the detailed procedure

s.rule 118 Procedure where detailed assessment required

s.rule 119 Costs paid otherwise than out of the assets of the company

s.rule 12 The hearing

s.rule 120 Award of costs against postal administrator

s.rule 121 Applications for costs

s.rule 122 Costs and expenses of witnesses

s.rule 123 Final costs certificate

s.rule 124 Introductory

s.rule 125 Appointment of another person to act

s.rule 126 Witness statement in support of application

s.rule 127 Service of notices following appointment

s.rule 128 Appeals and reviews of postal administration orders

s.rule 129 Procedure on appeal

s.rule 13 Notice of postal administration order

s.rule 130 Principal court rules and practice to apply

s.rule 131 Right of audience

s.rule 132 Formal defects

s.rule 133 Service of orders staying proceedings

s.rule 134 Payment into court

s.rule 135 Further Information and Disclosure

s.rule 136 Office copies of documents

s.rule 137 Definition of “proxy”

s.rule 138 Issue and use of forms

s.rule 139 Use of proxies at meetings

s.rule 14 Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment

s.rule 140 Retention of proxies

s.rule 141 Right of inspection

s.rule 142 Proxy-holder with financial interest

s.rule 144 Preliminary

s.rule 145 Form and contents of application

s.rule 146 Order for examination, etc

s.rule 147 Procedure for examination

s.rule 148 Record of examination

s.rule 149 Costs of proceedings under section 236

s.rule 15 Notice requiring statement of affairs

s.rule 150 Power of Secretary of State to regulate certain matters

s.rule 151 Costs, expenses, etc

s.rule 152 Provable debts

s.rule 153 False claim of status as creditor, etc

s.rule 154 Punishment of offences

s.rule 155 Application

s.rule 156 Personal delivery of documents

s.rule 157 Postal delivery of documents

s.rule 158 Non-receipt of notice of meeting

s.rule 159 Notice etc to solicitors

s.rule 16 Verification and filing

s.rule 160 Application

s.rule 161 The form of notices and other documents

s.rule 162 Proof of sending etc

s.rule 163 Authentication

s.rule 164 Electronic delivery in postal administration proceedings—general

s.rule 165 Electronic delivery by postal administrator

s.rule 166 Use of websites by postal administrator

s.rule 167 Special provision on account of expense as to website use

s.rule 168 Electronic delivery of postal administration proceedings to courts

s.rule 169 Notice etc to joint postal administrators

s.rule 17 Limited disclosure

s.rule 170 Application of CPR Part 6 to service of court documents within the jurisdiction

s.rule 171 Service on joint postal administrators

s.rule 172 Application of CPR Part 6 to service of court documents outside the jurisdiction

s.rule 173 Quorum at meeting of creditors

s.rule 174 Remote attendance at meetings of creditors

s.rule 175 Action where person excluded

s.rule 176 Indication to excluded person

s.rule 177 Complaint

s.rule 178 Forms for use in postal administration proceedings

s.rule 179 Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms to the Secretary of State, postal administrators, and of copies to the registrar of companies

s.rule 18 Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time

s.rule 180 Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms in all other cases

s.rule 181 Contents of notices to be gazetted under the 1986 Act or the Rules

s.rule 182 Omission of unobtainable information

s.rule 183 The Gazette—general

s.rule 184 Notices otherwise advertised under the 1986 Act or the Rules

s.rule 185 Non-Gazette notices—other provisions

s.rule 186 Application of this Chapter

s.rule 187 Information to be contained in all notifications to the registrar

s.rule 188 Notifications relating to the office of postal administrator

s.rule 189 Notifications relating to documents

s.rule 19 Expenses of statement of affairs

s.rule 190 Notifications relating to court orders

s.rule 191 Returns or reports of meetings

s.rule 192 Notifications relating to other events

s.rule 193 Notifications of more than one nature

s.rule 194 Notifications made to other persons at the same time

s.rule 195 Confidentiality of documents—grounds for refusing inspection

s.rule 196 Right to copy documents

s.rule 197 Charges for copy documents

s.rule 198 Right to have list of creditors

s.rule 199 Time limits

s.rule 2 Construction and Interpretation

s.rule 20 Postal administrator’s proposals

s.rule 200 Postal administrator’s security

s.rule 201 Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act

s.rule 202 Introductory

s.rule 203 “The appropriate fee”

s.rule 204 “Authorised deposit-taker and former authorised deposit-taker”

s.rule 205 “The court”; “the registrar”

s.rule 206 “Debt”, “liability”

s.rule 207 “Petitioner”

s.rule 208 “Venue”

s.rule 209 Expressions used generally

s.rule 210 Application

s.rule 211 Application of the 1986 Act

s.rule 22 Creditors’ meetings generally

s.rule 23 The chair at meetings

s.rule 24 Creditors’ meeting for nomination of alternative liquidator

s.rule 25 Notice of meetings by advertisement only

s.rule 27 Admission and rejection of claims

s.rule 28 Secured creditors

s.rule 29 Holders of negotiable instruments

s.rule 3 Extent

s.rule 30 Hire-purchase, conditional sale and chattel leasing agreements

s.rule 31 Resolutions

s.rule 32 Minutes

s.rule 33 Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals

s.rule 34 Reports to creditors

s.rule 36 Authority to dispose of property

s.rule 37 Priority of expenses of postal administration

s.rule 38 Pre-postal administration costs

s.rule 39 Distribution to creditors generally

s.rule 4 Witness statement

s.rule 40 Debts of insolvent company to rank equally

s.rule 41 Supplementary provisions as to dividend

s.rule 42 Division of unsold assets

s.rule 43 Proving a debt

s.rule 44 Costs of proving

s.rule 45 Postal administrator to allow inspection of proofs

s.rule 46 New postal administrator appointed

s.rule 47 Admission and rejection of proofs for dividend

s.rule 48 Appeal against decision on proof

s.rule 49 Withdrawal or variation of proof

s.rule 5 Form of application

s.rule 50 Expunging of proof by the court

s.rule 51 Estimate of quantum

s.rule 52 Negotiable instruments, etc

s.rule 53 Secured creditors

s.rule 54 Discounts

s.rule 55 Mutual credits and set-off

s.rule 56 Debt in foreign currency

s.rule 57 Payments of a periodical nature

s.rule 58 Interest

s.rule 59 Debt payable at future time

s.rule 6 Contents of application and witness statement

s.rule 60 Value of security

s.rule 61 Surrender for non-disclosure

s.rule 62 Redemption by postal administrator

s.rule 63 Test of security’s value

s.rule 64 Realisation of security by creditor

s.rule 65 Notice of proposed distribution

s.rule 66 Admission or rejection of proofs

s.rule 67 Postponement or cancellation of dividend

s.rule 68 Declaration of dividend

s.rule 69 Notice of declaration of a dividend

s.rule 7 Filing of application

s.rule 70 Payments of dividends and related matters

s.rule 71 Notice of no dividend, or no further dividend

s.rule 72 Proof altered after payment of dividend

s.rule 73 Secured creditors

s.rule 74 Disqualification from dividend

s.rule 75 Assignment of right to dividend

s.rule 76 Debt payable at future time

s.rule 77 Fixing of remuneration

s.rule 78 Final progress reports

s.rule 79 Application to court

s.rule 8 Service of application

s.rule 80 Notification by postal administrator of court order

s.rule 81 Moving from postal administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation

s.rule 82 Moving from postal administration to dissolution

s.rule 83 Provision of information to the Secretary of State

s.rule 84 Grounds for resignation

s.rule 85 Notice of intention to resign

s.rule 86 Notice of resignation

s.rule 87 Application to court to remove postal administrator from office

s.rule 88 Notice of vacation of office when postal administrator ceases to be qualified to act

s.rule 89 Postal administrator deceased

s.rule 9 Notice to officers charged with execution of writs or other process

s.rule 90 Application to replace

s.rule 91 Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator

s.rule 92 Notification and advertisement of appointment of joint postal administrator

s.rule 93 Notification to Registrar of Companies

s.rule 94 Postal administrator’s duties on vacating office

s.rule 95 Preliminary

s.rule 96 Form and contents of application

s.rule 97 Application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act to disapply section 176A of the 1986 Act

s.rule 98 Filing and service of application

s.rule 99 Notice of application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act

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The Postal Administration Rules 2013

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