The Energy Administration Rules 2005

Contents of application and affidavit in support E+W

6.—(1) The energy administration application shall state that the company is a protected energy company.

(2) The application shall state one or both of the following—

(a) the applicant’s belief that the protected energy company is, or is likely to be, unable to pay its debts;

(b) the Secretary of State has certified that it would be appropriate for him to petition for the winding up of the protected energy company under section 124A of the 1986 Act(1) (petition for winding up on grounds of public interest).

(3) There shall be attached to the application an affidavit in support which shall contain—

(a) a statement of the protected energy company’s financial position, specifying (to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief) the company’s assets and liabilities, including contingent and prospective liabilities;

(b) details of any security known or believed to be held by the creditors of the protected energy company and whether in any case the security is such as to confer power on the holder to appoint an administrative receiver or to appoint an administrator under paragraph 14 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act, without the modifications made by Schedule 20 to the 2004 Act. If an administrative receiver has been appointed, that fact shall be stated;

(c) details of any insolvency proceedings in relation to the protected energy company including any petition that has been presented for the winding up of the protected energy company so far as within the immediate knowledge of the applicant;

(d) details of any notice served in accordance with section 164 of the 2004 Act by any person intending to enforce any security over the protected energy company’s assets, so far as within the immediate knowledge of the applicant;

(e) details of any step taken to enforce any such security, so far as within the immediate knowledge of the applicant;

(f) details of any application for leave of the court to pass a resolution for the voluntary winding up of the protected energy company, so far as within the immediate knowledge of the applicant;

(g) where it is intended to appoint a number of persons as energy administrators, details of the matters set out in section 158(5) of the 2004 Act regarding the exercise of the powers and duties of the energy administrator;

(h) any other matters which, in the opinion of those intending to make the application for an energy administration order, will assist the court in deciding whether to make such an order, so far as lying within the knowledge or belief of the applicant.

Commencement Information

I1 Rule 6 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1

(1)

1986 c. 45; section 124A was inserted by the Companies Act 1989 c. 40, section 60(3) and amended by S.I. 2001/3649, article 305, and the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 c. 27, section 25(1), Schedule 2, paragraph 27.