{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2009/rule-262",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2009/rule-262.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/356",
  "legislation_title": "The Bank Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2009",
  "path": "rule/262",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "262",
  "heading": "Provable debts",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) in a bank insolvency all claims by creditors are provable as debts against the bank, whether they are present or future, certain or contingent, ascertained or sounding only in damages.\n(2) Any obligation arising under a confiscation order made under Parts 2, 3 or 4 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is not provable.\n(3) The following are not provable except at a time when all other claims of creditors in the insolvency proceedings (other than any of a kind mentioned in this paragraph) have been paid in full with interest under section 189(2) of the 1986 Act—\n(a) any claim arising by virtue of section 382(1)(a) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, not being a claim arising by virtue of section 382(1)(b) of that Act; or\n(b) any claim which by virtue of the 1986 Act or any enactment is a claim the payment of which in the bank insolvency is to be postponed.\n(4) Nothing in this rule prejudices any enactment or rule of law under which a particular kind of debt is not provable, whether on grounds of public policy or otherwise.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 262 in force at 25.2.2009, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/356/rule/262",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:17:34.546410+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}