The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

Copies of petition to be served on company or delivered to other persons

7.9.—(1) Where this rule requires the petitioner to serve a copy of the petition on the company or deliver a copy to another person the petitioner must, when filing the petition with the court, file an additional copy with the court for each such person.

(2) Where the petitioner is not the company the petitioner must serve a sealed copy of the petition on the company in accordance with Schedule 4.

(3) If, to the petitioner’s knowledge—

(a) the company is in the course of being wound up voluntarily, the petitioner must deliver a copy of the petition to the liquidator;

(b) an administrative receiver has been appointed in relation to the company, or the company is in administration, the petitioner must deliver a copy of the petition to the receiver or the administrator;

(c) there is in force for the company a CVA, the petitioner must deliver a copy of the petition to the supervisor of the CVA; or

(d) there is a member State liquidator appointed in main proceedings in relation to the company, the petitioner must deliver a copy to that person.

(4) If either the Financial Conduct Authority or Prudential Regulation Authority is entitled to be heard at the hearing of the petition in accordance with section 371 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the petitioner must deliver a copy of the petition to the Financial Conduct Authority or Prudential Regulation Authority (as appropriate).

(5) Where this rule requires the petitioner to deliver a copy of the petition to any other person that copy must be delivered within three business days after the day on which the petition is served on the company or where the petitioner is the company within three business days of the company receiving the sealed petition.