Remote attendance at meetings
- Postal administrator must respond to requests for a physical meeting venue
UK Statutory Instrument
2016
United Kingdom
The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016
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New postal administrator appointed
- Former postal administrator must hand over creditors' claims to new administrator
Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator
- Notify Companies House of replacement postal administrator appointment
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Citation and commencement
Construction and interpretation
Application
Review
Form of application
Statement of proposed postal administrator
Service of petition
Expenses
Notice of dismissal of application for a postal administration order
Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment
Notice requiring statement of affairs
Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence
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 49 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act statement
Notices to creditors
Meetings generally and notice
The chair at meetings
Quorum at meeting of creditors
Chair of meeting as proxy holder
Suspension and adjournment
Correspondence instead of creditors’ meetings
Action where person excluded
Indication to excluded person
Complaint
Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator
Entitlement to vote (creditors and members)
Hire-purchase, conditional sale and hiring agreements
Resolutions
Report of Meeting
Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals
Progress reports
Disposal of secured property
Submission of claims
Secured debts
Entitlement to vote and draw dividend
Adjudication of claims
Evidence in relation to claims
Criminal offences in relation to false claims or evidence
Amount which may be claimed generally
Debts depending on contingency
Liabilities and rights of co-obligants
Claims in foreign currency
Order of priority in distribution
Expenses of the postal administration
Pre-postal administration costs
Assets to be distributed
Determination of outlays and remuneration
Payment of dividends
Unclaimed dividends
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
Incapacity to act, through death or otherwise
Application to replace
Joint or concurrent appointments
Hand-over of assets to successor postal administrator
Application under section 176A(5) of the
Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act
Definition of “proxy”
Form of proxy
Use of proxy at meeting
Retention of proxies
Right of inspection
Proxy-holder with financial interest
Representation of corporations
Application
Personal delivery of documents
Sending by post
Notice by and to representatives
Notice to joint postal administrators
The form of notices and other documents
Certificate of giving notice
Electronic delivery in postal administration proceedings – general
Use of websites by postal administrator
Special provision on account of expense as to website use
Validity of proceedings
Evidence of proceedings at meetings
Right to list of creditors and copy documents
Confidentiality of documents
Postal administrator’s caution
Punishment of offences
Forms for use in postal administration proceedings
Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms to the Secretary of State, postal administrators and of copies to the registrar of companies
Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms in all other cases
Contents of notices to be published in the Edinburgh Gazette under the 1986 Act or these Rules
Notices otherwise advertised under the 1986 Act or these Rules
Notices otherwise advertised – other additional provisions
Omission of unobtainable information
Fees, expenses,
Power of court to cure defects in procedure
Sederunt book
Disposal of company’s books, papers and other records
Information about time spent on a case
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