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The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016

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Expenses of the postal administration

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48.—(1) The expenses of the postal administration are payable out of the assets in the following order of priority—

(a)any outlays properly chargeable or incurred by the postal administrator in carrying out the postal administrator’s functions in the postal administration, except those outlays specifically mentioned in the following sub-paragraphs;

(b)the cost, or proportionate cost, of any caution provided by the postal administrator in accordance with the 1986 Act or these Rules;

(c)the expenses of the applicant and any person appearing on the hearing of the application for the postal administration order whose expenses are allowed by the court;

(d)any amount payable to a person employed or authorised, under Part 3 of these Rules, to assist in the preparation of a statement of affairs or statement of concurrence;

(e)any allowance made, by order of the court, towards expenses on an application for release from the obligation to submit a statement of affairs or statement of concurrence;

(f)the remuneration or emoluments of any person who has been employed by the postal administrator to perform any services for the company, as required or authorised under the 1986 Act, the 2011 Act, Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act or these Rules;

(g)the remuneration of the postal administrator determined under Rule 50; and

(h)the amount of any corporation tax on chargeable gains accruing on the realisation of any asset of the company (without regard to whether the realisation is effected by the postal administrator, a secured creditor, or otherwise).

(2) Nothing in this Rule applies to or affects the power of any court in proceedings by or against the company, to order expenses to be paid by the company or the postal administrator, nor does it affect the rights of any person to whom such expenses are ordered to be paid.

(3) The priorities laid down by paragraph (1) of this Rule are subject to the power of the court to make orders under paragraph (4) of this Rule where the assets are insufficient to satisfy the liabilities.

(4) The court may, in the event of the assets being insufficient to satisfy the liabilities, make an order as to the payment out of the assets of the expenses incurred in the postal administration in such order of priority as the court thinks just.

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