The Credit Institutions (Reorganisation and Winding up) Regulations 2004

Application of this Part: [F1certain assets excluded from insolvent estate of UK credit institution] U.K.

20.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, the insolvent estate of a UK credit institution shall not include any assets which at the commencement date are subject to [F2a relevant compromise or arrangement].

(2) In this regulation—

(a)“assets” has the same meaning as “property” in section 436 of the 1986 Act or Article 2(2) of the 1989 Order;

(b)“commencement date” means the date when a UK credit institution goes into liquidation within the meaning given by section 247(2) of the 1986 Act or Article 6(2) of the 1989 Order;

(c)“insolvent estate” has the meaning given by [F3rule 1.2] of the Insolvency Rules or Rule 0.2 of the Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) and in Scotland means the company’s assets;

[F4(d)“relevant compromise or arrangement” means—

(i)a compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court before 5th May 2004 under—

(aa)section 425 of the Companies Act 1985 (excluding a compromise or arrangement falling within section 427 or 427A of that Act), or

(bb)Article 418 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (excluding a compromise or arrangement falling within Article 420 or 420A of that Order); or

(ii)any subsequent compromise or arrangement sanctioned by the court to amend or replace a compromise or arrangement of a kind mentioned in paragraph (i) which is—

(aa)itself of a kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (aa) or (bb) of paragraph (i) (whether sanctioned before, on or after 5th May 2004), or

(bb)a section 899 compromise or arrangement.]

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