The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017

Savings in relation to insolvency proceedings

25.—(1) Despite the revocation of the Insolvency Rules, those Rules apply as they applied before they were revoked for the purposes of—

(a) a proposal to a society and its creditors for a voluntary arrangement within the meaning given in section 1 of the Insolvency Act 1986(1) as applied in relation to a relevant society by article 2(1) of the 2014 Order;

(b) the administration of a society under Part 2 of the Insolvency Act 1986 as applied by article 2(2) of the 2014 Order; and

(c) proceedings instituted in England and Wales for the winding up of a relevant scheme (within the meaning given in regulation 17(1)(a) of the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (Contractual Scheme) Regulations 2013).

(2) In this regulation—

“the 2014 Order” means the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions (Arrangements, Reconstructions and Administration) Order 2014; and

“society” means a relevant society within the meaning given in article 1(2) of the 2014 Order which the courts in England and Wales have jurisdiction to wind up.

(1)

Section 1 was amended by the Insolvency Act 2000 (c. 39), Schedule 2, paragraphs 1 and 2, and by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 17, paragraphs 9 and 10. There are other amendments, but they are not relevant.