SCHEDULE 3

PREFERRED DEBTS
PART 1

List of preferred debts

Contributions to occupational pension schemes etc.
1
Any sum which is owed by the debtor and is a sum to which schedule 4 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (contributions to occupational pension scheme and state scheme premiums) applies.

Remuneration of employees etc.
2
1
So much of any amount which—
a
is owed by the debtor to a person who is or has been an employee of the debtor, and
b
is payable by way of remuneration in respect of the whole or any part of the 4 months which immediately precedes the relevant date,
as does not exceed the prescribed amount.
2
An amount owed by way of accrued holiday remuneration, in respect of any period of employment before the relevant date, to a person whose employment by the debtor has been terminated (whether before, on or after that date).
3
So much of any amount owed in respect of money advanced for the purpose as has been applied for the payment of a debt which, if it had not been paid, would have been a debt falling within sub-paragraph (1) or (2).
3
So much of any amount which—
a
is ordered, whether before or after the relevant date, to be paid by the debtor under the Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985, and
b
is so ordered in respect of a default made by the debtor before that date in the discharge of the debtor’s obligations under that Act,
as does not exceed such amount as may be prescribed.

Levies on coal and steel production
4
Any sums due at the relevant date from the debtor in respect of—
a
the levies on the production of coal and steel referred to in Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, or
b
any surcharge for delay provided for in Article 50(3) of that Treaty and Article 6 of Decision 3/52 of the High Authority of that Community.

Debts owed to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme
5
Any debt owed by the debtor to the scheme manager of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme under section 215(2A) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

Deposits covered by Financial Services Compensation Scheme
6
So much of any amount owed at the relevant date by the debtor in respect of an eligible deposit as does not exceed the compensation that would be payable in respect of the deposit under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to the person or persons to whom the amount is owed.

Other deposits
7
So much of any amount owed at the relevant date by the debtor to one or more eligible persons in respect of an eligible deposit as exceeds any compensation that would be payable in respect of the deposit under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to that person or those persons.
8
An amount owed at the relevant date by the debtor to one or more eligible persons in respect of a deposit which—
a
was made through a non-EEA branch of a credit institution authorised by the competent authority of an EEA state, and
b
would have been an eligible deposit if it had been made through an EEA branch of that credit institution.