The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Construction and interpretation

   3. 3. Application

   4. 4. Review

3. PART 2

   1. 5. Form of Application

   2. 6. Statement of proposed postal administrator

   3. 7. Service of petition

   4. 8. Expenses

   5. 9. Notice of dismissal of application for a postal administration order

4. PART 3

   1. 10. Notification and advertisement of postal administrator’s appointment

   2. 11. Notice requiring statement of affairs

   3. 12. Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence

   4. 13. Limited disclosure

   5. 14. Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time

   6. 15. Expenses of statement of affairs

   7. 16. Postal administrator’s proposals

   8. 17. Limited disclosure of paragraph 49 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act statement

   9. 18. Notices to creditors

5. PART 4

   1. 19. Meetings generally and notice

   2. 20. The chair at meetings

   3. 21. Quorum at meeting of creditors

   4. 22. Chair of meeting as proxy holder

   5. 23. Suspension and Adjournment

   6. 24. Correspondence instead of creditors’ meetings

   7. 25. Remote attendance at meetings

   8. 26. Action where person excluded

   9. 27. Indication to excluded person

   10. 28. Complaint

   11. 29. Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator

   12. 30. Entitlement to vote (creditors and members)

   13. 31. Hire-purchase, conditional sale and hiring agreements

   14. 32. Resolutions

   15. 33. Report of Meeting

   16. 34. Revision of the postal administrator’s proposals

   17. 35. Progress Reports

   18. 36. Disposal of secured property

6. PART 5

   1. 37. Submission of claims

   2. 38. Secured debts

   3. 39. Entitlement to vote and draw dividend

   4. 40. Adjudication of claims

   5. 41. Evidence in relation to claims

   6. 42. Criminal offences in relation to false claims or evidence

   7. 43. Amount which may be claimed generally

   8. 44. Debts depending on contingency

   9. 45. Liabilities and rights of co-obligants

   10. 46. Claims in foreign currency

7. PART 6

   1. 47. Order of priority in distribution

   2. 48. Expenses of the postal administration

   3. 49. Pre-postal administration costs

   4. 50. Assets to be distributed

   5. 51. Determination of outlays and remuneration

   6. 52. Payment of dividends

   7. 53. Unclaimed Dividends

   8. 54. New postal administrator appointed

8. PART 7

   1. 55. Final progress reports

   2. 56. Application to court

   3. 57. Notification by postal administrator of court order

   4. 58. Moving from postal administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation

   5. 59. Moving from postal administration to dissolution

   6. 60. Provision of information to the Secretary of State

9. PART 8

   1. 61. Grounds for resignation

   2. 62. Notice of intention to resign

   3. 63. Notice of resignation

   4. 64. Application to court to remove postal administrator from office

   5. 65. Incapacity to act, through death or otherwise

   6. 66. Application to replace

   7. 67. Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement postal administrator

   8. 68. Joint or concurrent appointments

   9. 69. Hand-over of assets to successor postal administrator

10. PART 9

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

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

11. PART 10

    1. 72. Definition of “proxy”

    2. 73. Form of proxy

    3. 74. Use of proxy at meeting

    4. 75. Retention of proxies

    5. 76. Right of inspection

    6. 77. Proxy-holder with financial interest

    7. 78. Representation of corporations

12. PART 11

    1. 79. Application

    2. 80. Personal delivery of documents

    3. 81. Sending by post

    4. 82. Notice by and to representatives

    5. 83. Notice to joint postal administrators

    6. 84. The form of notices and other documents

    7. 85. Certificate of giving notice etc

    8. 86. Electronic delivery in postal administration proceedings – general

    9. 87. Use of websites by postal administrator

    10. 88. Special provision on account of expense as to website use

13. PART 12

    1. 89. Validity of proceedings

    2. 90. Evidence of proceedings at meetings

    3. 91. Right to list of creditors and copy documents

    4. 92. Confidentiality of documents

    5. 93. Postal administrator’s caution

    6. 94. Punishment of offences

    7. 95. Forms for use in postal administration proceedings

    8. 96. Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms to the Secretary of State, postal administrators and of copies to the registrar of companies

    9. 97. Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms in all other cases

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

    11. 99. Notices otherwise advertised under the 1986 Act or these Rules

    12. 100. Notices otherwise advertised – other additional provisions

    13. 101. Omission of unobtainable information

    14. 102. Fees, expenses, etc.

    15. 103. Power of court to cure defects in procedure

    16. 104. Sederunt book

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

    18. 106. Information about time spent on a case

14. Signature

15. 1. SCHEDULE

       Forms

16. Explanatory Note