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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 1 of 5 obligations carry imprisonment (3 months). 4 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Director or Officer4 Any Person1

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

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.art025 Remote attendance at meetings Regulated

Postal administrator must respond to requests for a physical meeting venueDirector or Officer

s.art041 Evidence in relation to claims Imprisonment

Fail to attend examination in postal administrationAny Person

s.art052 Payment of dividends Regulated

Pay dividends to creditors and manage unclaimed amountsDirector or Officer

s.art054 New postal administrator appointed Regulated

Former postal administrator must hand over creditors' claims to new administratorDirector or Officer

s.art067 Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator Regulated

Notify Companies House of replacement postal administrator appointmentDirector or Officer

101 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.art001 Citation and commencement

s.art002 Construction and interpretation

s.art003 Application

s.art004 Review

s.art005 Form of application

s.art006 Statement of proposed postal administrator

s.art007 Service of petition

s.art008 Expenses

s.art009 Notice of dismissal of application for a postal administration order

s.art010 Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment

s.art011 Notice requiring statement of affairs

s.art012 Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence

s.art013 Limited disclosure

s.art014 Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time

s.art015 Expenses of statement of affairs

s.art016 Postal administrator’s proposals

s.art017 Limited disclosure of paragraph 49 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act statement

s.art018 Notices to creditors

s.art019 Meetings generally and notice

s.art020 The chair at meetings

s.art021 Quorum at meeting of creditors

s.art022 Chair of meeting as proxy holder

s.art023 Suspension and adjournment

s.art024 Correspondence instead of creditors’ meetings

s.art026 Action where person excluded

s.art027 Indication to excluded person

s.art028 Complaint

s.art029 Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator

s.art030 Entitlement to vote (creditors and members)

s.art031 Hire-purchase, conditional sale and hiring agreements

s.art032 Resolutions

s.art033 Report of Meeting

s.art034 Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals

s.art035 Progress reports

s.art036 Disposal of secured property

s.art037 Submission of claims

s.art038 Secured debts

s.art039 Entitlement to vote and draw dividend

s.art040 Adjudication of claims

s.art042 Criminal offences in relation to false claims or evidence

s.art043 Amount which may be claimed generally

s.art044 Debts depending on contingency

s.art045 Liabilities and rights of co-obligants

s.art046 Claims in foreign currency

s.art047 Order of priority in distribution

s.art048 Expenses of the postal administration

s.art049 Pre-postal administration costs

s.art050 Assets to be distributed

s.art051 Determination of outlays and remuneration

s.art053 Unclaimed dividends

s.art055 Final progress reports

s.art056 Application to court

s.art057 Notification by postal administrator of court order

s.art058 Moving from postal administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation

s.art059 Moving from postal administration to dissolution

s.art060 Provision of information to the Secretary of State

s.art061 Grounds for resignation

s.art062 Notice of intention to resign

s.art063 Notice of resignation

s.art064 Application to court to remove postal administrator from office

s.art065 Incapacity to act, through death or otherwise

s.art066 Application to replace

s.art068 Joint or concurrent appointments

s.art069 Hand-over of assets to successor postal administrator

s.art070 Application under section 176A(5) of the

s.art071 Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act

s.art072 Definition of “proxy”

s.art073 Form of proxy

s.art074 Use of proxy at meeting

s.art075 Retention of proxies

s.art076 Right of inspection

s.art077 Proxy-holder with financial interest

s.art078 Representation of corporations

s.art079 Application

s.art080 Personal delivery of documents

s.art081 Sending by post

s.art082 Notice by and to representatives

s.art083 Notice to joint postal administrators

s.art084 The form of notices and other documents

s.art085 Certificate of giving notice

s.art086 Electronic delivery in postal administration proceedings – general

s.art087 Use of websites by postal administrator

s.art088 Special provision on account of expense as to website use

s.art089 Validity of proceedings

s.art090 Evidence of proceedings at meetings

s.art091 Right to list of creditors and copy documents

s.art092 Confidentiality of documents

s.art093 Postal administrator’s caution

s.art094 Punishment of offences

s.art095 Forms for use in postal administration proceedings

s.art096 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.art097 Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms in all other cases

s.art098 Contents of notices to be published in the Edinburgh Gazette under the 1986 Act or these Rules

s.art099 Notices otherwise advertised under the 1986 Act or these Rules

s.art100 Notices otherwise advertised – other additional provisions

s.art101 Omission of unobtainable information

s.art102 Fees, expenses,

s.art103 Power of court to cure defects in procedure

s.art104 Sederunt book

s.art105 Disposal of company’s books, papers and other records

s.art106 Information about time spent on a case

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

The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016

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Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires