{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-117.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009",
  "path": "section/117",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Bank insolvency as alternative order",
  "text": "(1) On a petition for a winding up order or an application for an administration order in respect of a bank the court may, instead, make a bank insolvency order.\n(2) A bank insolvency order may be made under subsection (1) only—\n(a) on the application of the PRA made with the consent of ... the FCA, or\n(b) on the application of the Bank of England.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 117(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 17 para. 43(a) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 117(2)(a) omitted (1.3.2017) by virtue of Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016 (c. 14), s. 41(3), Sch. 2 para. 58 (with Sch. 3); S.I. 2017/43, reg. 2(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 117(2)(a) inserted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 17 para. 43(b) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 117 in force at 21.2.2009 by S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/1/section/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:28.246347+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."
}