The Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994

Interest on debts

328D.—(1) In the bankruptcy of each of the members of an insolvent partnership and in the winding up of that partnership’s business and administration of its property, interest is payable in accordance with this section, in the order of priority laid down by sections 328A and 328B, on any debt proved in the bankruptcy including so much of any such debt as represents interest on the remainder.

(2) Interest under this section is payable on the debts in question in respect of the periods during which they have been outstanding since the relevant order was made by virtue of article 11 of the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994.

(3) The rate of interest payable under this section in respect of any debt (“the official rate” for the purposes of any provision of this Act in which that expression is used) is whichever is the greater of—

(a)the rate specified in section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838(1) on the day on which t e relevant order was made, and

(b)the rate applicable to that debt apart from the bankruptcy or winding up.