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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-rules-2001/rule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3634",
  "legislation_title": "The Bankruptcy (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-rules-2001",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“the Authority” means the Financial Services Authority;\n“debt” means the sum referred to in section 372(4)(a) of the Act;\n“demand” means a demand made under section 372(4)(a) of the Act;\n“individual” has the meaning given by section 372(7) of the Act;\n“person” excludes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate;\n“the 1986 Rules” means the Insolvency Rules 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1925; the only relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/1919."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/754",
      "affecting_title": "The Bankruptcy (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Rules 2001 and the Insurers (Winding Up) Rules 2001 (Amendment) Rules 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3634/rule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:25:14.929171+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."
}