The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Administration Orders Relating to Insurers) Order 2002

6.—(1) The powers of the administrator referred to in Schedule 1 to the 1986 Act (powers of administrator or administrative receiver) include the power to make—

(a) any payments due to a creditor; or

(b) any payments on account of any sum which may become due to a creditor.

(2) Any payments to a creditor made pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) must not exceed, in aggregate, the amount which the administrator reasonably considers that the creditor would be entitled to receive on a distribution of the insurer’s assets in a winding up.

(3) The powers conferred by sub-paragraph (1) may be exercised until a section 23 meeting but may only be exercised thereafter—

(a) if the following conditions are met—

(i) the administrator has laid before the section 23 meeting or any subsequent creditors' meeting (“the relevant meeting”) a statement containing the information mentioned in sub-paragraph (4); and

(ii) the powers are exercised with the consent of a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors present and voting either in person or by proxy at the relevant meeting; or

(b) with the consent of the court.

(4) The information referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a) is an estimate of the aggregate amount of—

(a) the insurer’s assets and liabilities (whether actual, contingent or prospective); and

(b) all payments which the administrator proposes to make to creditors pursuant to sub-paragraph (1);

including any assumptions which the administrator has made in calculating that estimate.