The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

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3.60.—(1) This rule applies where the administrator delivers to the registrar of companies a notice under paragraph 83(3) of Schedule B1 M1 of moving from administration to creditors' voluntary winding up.

(2) The notice must contain—

(a)identification details for the proceedings;

(b)the name of the person who made the appointment or the administration application, as the case may be; and

(c)the name and IP number of the proposed liquidator.

(3) The notice to the registrar of companies must be accompanied by a copy of the administrator's final progress report.

(4) A copy of the notice and the final progress report must be sent as soon as reasonably practicable after delivery of the notice to all those persons to whom notice of the administrator's appointment was delivered in addition to the creditors (as required by paragraph 83(5)(b)).

(5) The person who ceases to be administrator on the registration of the notice must inform the person who becomes liquidator of anything which happens after the date of the final progress report and before the registration of the notice which the administrator would have included in the final report had it happened before the date of the report.

(6) For the purposes of paragraph 83(7)(a) of Schedule B1, a person is nominated by the creditors as liquidator by—

(a)their approval of the statement of the proposed liquidator in the administrator's proposals or revised proposals; or

(b)their nomination of a different person, through a decision procedure, before their approval of the proposals or revised proposals.

(7) Where the creditors nominate a different person, the nomination must, where applicable, include the declaration required by section 231.

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Marginal Citations

M1Sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (2)(b) are amended by section 128(3) and sub-paragraphs (5)(b) and (8)(d) are amended by paragraphs 10(31) and (32) of Schedule 9 to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26).