Housing and Regeneration Act 2008U.K.
30.—(1) The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 152(4) (proposals)—
(a)omit the “or” at the end of paragraph (a);
(b)after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)an ordinary preferential debt being paid otherwise than in priority to a secondary preferential debt,”;
(c)in paragraph (b), for “a preferential debt” substitute “an ordinary preferential debt”;
(d)at the end of paragraph (b), insert—
“or
(c)a preferential creditor (PC1) being paid a smaller proportion of a secondary preferential debt than another preferential creditor (PC2) (unless PC2 consents).”
(3) In section 275 (general)(2), for ““preferential creditor” and “preferential debtor”” substitute ““preferential creditor”, “preferential debt”, “ordinary preferential debt” and “secondary preferential debt””.
(4) In the Table in section 276 (index of defined terms), insert the following entries at the appropriate place—
“Ordinary preferential debt | Section 275” |
“Secondary preferential debt | Section 275” |
Commencement Information
I1Art. 30 in force at 1.1.2015, see art. 1(2)
There are amendments to section 275, but those amendments are not relevant to this Order.