Part IX

Bankruptcy
Chapter V

Effect of Bankruptcy on Certain Rights Transacttions, Etc.

Adjustment of prior transactions, etc.

Distress, etc.
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CRAR (the power of commercial rent arrears recovery under section 72(1) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007) is exercisable where the tenant is an undischarged bankrupt (subject to sections 252(2)(b) and 254(1) above and subsection (5) below)
against goods and effects comprised in the bankrupt’s estate, but only for 6 months’ rent accrued due before the commencement of the bankruptcy.
2
Where CRAR has been exercised to recover rent from an individual to whom a bankruptcy application or a bankruptcy petition relates and a
bankruptcy order is subsequently made as a result of that application or on that petition, any amount recovered by way of CRAR which—
a
is in excess of the amount which by virtue of subsection (1) would have been recoverable after the commencement of the bankruptcy, or
b
is in respect of rent for a period or part of a period after goods were taken control of under CRAR ,
shall be held for the bankrupt as apart of his estate.
3
Subsection (3A) applies where—
a
any person (whether or not a landlord or person entitled to rent) has distrained upon the goods or effects of an individual who is
made
bankrupt before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the distraint, or
b
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has been paid any amount from an account of an individual under Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the Finance (
No.
2) Act 2015 (enforcement by deduction from accounts) and the individual is adjudged bankrupt before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the payment.
3A
Where this subsection applies—
a
in a case within subsection (3)(a), the goods or effects, or the proceeds of their sale, and
b
in a case within subsection (3)(b), the amount in question,
is charged for the benefit of the bankrupt's estate with the preferential debts of the bankrupt to the extent that the bankrupt's estate is for the time being insufficient for meeting them.
4
Where by virtue of any charge under subsection (3A) any person surrenders any goods or effects to the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate or makes a payment to such a
trustee, that person ranks, in respect of the amount of the proceeds of the sale of those goods or effects by the trustee or, as the case may be, the amount of the payment, as a
preferential creditor of the bankrupt, except as against so much of the bankrupt’s estate as is available for the payment of preferential creditors by virtue of the
surrender or payment.
5
CRAR is not exercisable at any time after the discharge of a bankrupt against any goods or effects comprised in the
bankrupt’s estate.
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Subject to sections 252(2)(b) and 254(1) above nothing in this Group of
Parts affects any right to distrain otherwise than for rent; and any such right is at any time exerciseable without restriction against property comprised in a bankrupt’s
estate, even if that right is expressed by any enactment to be exerciseable in like manner as a right to distrain for rent.
9
Any right to distrain against property comprised in a bankrupt’s estate is exerciseable notwithstanding that the propety has vested in the trustee.
10
The provisions of this section are without prejudice to a landlord’s right in a bankruptcy to prove for any bankruptcy debt in respect of rent.
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Words in s. 347(1) inserted (1.1.2003) by 2000 c. 39, s. 3, Sch. 3 para. 14(a); S.I. 2002/2711, art. 2 (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-5)
Words in s. 347(8) inserted (1.1.2003) by 2000 c. 39, s. 3, Sch. 3 para. 14(b); S.I. 2002/2711, art. 2 (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-5)
Pt. IX (ss. 264-371) excluded by Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (c. 32, SIF 39:1), s. 15(1)(7)
Pt. IX excluded by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), ss. 84, 123, Sch. 8 para. 16
Pt. IX (ss. 264-371) amended by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.41, SIF 39:1), ss. 30(6), 34(1), 47(4)(a)
Pt. IX (except ss. 269, 270, 287, 297) applied (with modifications) (1.12.1994) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 8(7)-(9), Sch. 4 Pt. II, Sch. 7 (as amended (1.7.2005) by S.I. 2005/1516, art. 10)
Pt. IX (except ss. 273, 274, 287, 297) applied (1.12.1994) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 10(4)(5)(a)
Pt. IX (ss. 264-371) modified (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 37, ss. 32(1), 69(2), Sch. 2 para. 5 (with s. 66(2))
Pt. IX modified (31.3.1996) by 1995 c. 20, s. 110(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1); S.I. 1996/517, art. 3(2) (subject to transitional provisions and savings in arts. 4-6, Sch. 2)
Pt. IX modified (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 43, ss. 44, 50(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(1)
Pt. IX modified (1.9.2001 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by 2001 c. 17, s. 1(3), Sch. 6 para. 9(1) (with s. 78); S.I. 2001/2161, arts. 2, 3 (as amended by S.I. 2001/2304, art. 2)
Pt. IX modified (24.3.2003) by 2002 c. 29, ss. 417, 458(1)(3); S.I. 2003/333, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3-13 (as amended by S.I. 2003/531, arts. 3, 4))
Pt. IX (ss. 264-371) restricted (6.4.1996 for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations) by 1995 c. 26, ss. 91(3), 180(1) (with s. 121(5)); S.I. 1996/778, art. 2(5)(a), Sch. Pt. V
Second Group of Parts (Pts. 8-11) modified (31.12.1996) by 1991 c. 57, Sch. 10 (as substituted by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 183 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/2909, art. 3)
Second Group of Parts (Pts. 8-11) modified (11.11.1999 for specified purposes and 6.4.2002 otherwise) by 1999 c. 30, s. 12(1); S.I. 2002/153, art. 2(b)
S. 347(6) repealed (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(5), Sch. 23 Pt. 4 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
S. 347(7) repealed (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(5), Sch. 23 Pt. 4 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
S. 347(11) repealed (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(6), Sch. 23 Pt. 4 (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Words in s. 347(1) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(2) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Word in s. 347(2) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(3)(b) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Words in s. 347(2) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(3)(a) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Words in s. 347(2)(c) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(3)(c) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Words in s. 347(5) substituted (6.4.2014) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), s. 148, Sch. 14 para. 44(4) (with s. 89); S.I. 2014/768, art. 2(1)(b)
Pt. IX (except ss. 273, 274, 287) applied (1.12.1994) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 11(1)(2)(a), Sch. 7 (as amended (1.7.2005) by S.I. 2005/1516, art. 10 and S.I. 1994/2421, Sch. 7 para. 21 (1.1.2015) by The Banks and Building Societies (Depositor Preference and Priorities) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3486), arts. 1(2), 15 (with art. 3))
S. 347(3)(3A) substituted for s. 347(3) (18.11.2015) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), Sch. 8 para. 33(1)(a)
Word in s. 347(4) substituted (18.11.2015) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), Sch. 8 para. 33(1)(b)
Words in s. 347(2) inserted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)
Words in s. 347(2) inserted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 40(2)(b); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)
Word in s. 347(3) substituted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 40(3); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)