The Energy Administration (Scotland) Rules 2006

Meetings generally and notice

15.—(1) This Rule and Rule 16 apply to any meetings summoned by the energy administrator under paragraph 62 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act.

(2) In fixing the venue for a meeting, the energy administrator shall have regard to the convenience of the persons who are to attend and the meeting shall be summoned for commencement between 10.00 and 16.00 hours on a business day, unless the court otherwise directs.

(3) Subject to Rule 20, the energy administrator shall give not less than 21 days' notice of the venue for the meeting to every person known to him as being entitled to attend the meeting.

(4) The energy administrator may also publish notice of the venue of the meeting in a newspaper circulating in the areas of the principal place of business of the protected energy company or in such other newspaper as he thinks most appropriate for ensuring that it comes to the notice of the persons who are entitled to attend the meeting.

(5) Any notice published under paragraph (4) shall be published not less than 21 days before the meeting.

(6) Any notice under this Rule shall state–

(a) the purpose of the meeting;

(b) the persons who are entitled to attend and vote at the meeting;

(c) the effects of Rule 21 and of the relevant provisions of Rule 24; and

(d) in the case of a meeting of creditors–

(i) that proxies may be lodged at or before the meeting and the place where they may be lodged; and

(ii) that claims may be lodged by those who have not already done so at or before the meeting and the place where they may be lodged.

(7) With the notice given under paragraph (1), the energy administrator shall also send out a proxy form.

(8) In the case of any meeting of creditors, the court may order that notice of the meeting be given by public advertisement in such form as may be specified in the order and not by individual notice to the persons concerned. In considering whether to make such an order, the court shall have regard to the cost of the public advertisement, to the amount of the assets available and to the extent of the interest of creditors or any particular class of them.