The Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) 1991

Contents of proof

4.081.  (NO CVL APPLICATION)

(1) Subject to Rule 4.079(5), the following matters shall be stated in a creditor's proof of debt—

(a) the creditor's name and address;

(b) the total amount of his claim as at the date on which the company went into liquidation;

(c) whether or not that amount includes outstanding uncapitalised interest;

(d) whether or not the claim includes value added tax;

(e) whether the whole or any part of the debt falls within any (and if so which) of the categories of preferential debts under Article 346 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Order (as read with Schedule 4 to the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975(1));

(f) particulars of how and when the debt was incurred by the company;

(g) particulars of any security held, the date when it was given and the value which the creditor puts upon it; and

(h) the name, address and authority of the person signing the proof (if other than the creditor himself).

(2) There shall be specified in the proof any documents by reference to which the debt can be substantiated; but (subject to paragraph (3)) it is not essential that such documents be attached to the proof or submitted with it.

(3) The liquidator, or the chairman or convener of any meeting, may call for any document or other evidence to be produced to him, where he thinks it necessary for the purpose of substantiating the whole or any part of the claim made in the proof.

[E.R.4.75]

(1)

S.I. 1975/1503 (N.I. 15)