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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-rules-2001/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankruptcy-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-rules-2001/rule-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Rule 6.2",
  "text": "(1) Rule 6.2 (information to be given in statutory demand) is disapplied—\n(2) The demand must include an explanation to the individual of the following matters—\n(a) the purpose of the demand and the fact that, if the individual does not comply with the demand, bankruptcy proceedings may be commenced against him;\n(b) the time within which the demand must be complied with, if that consequence is to be avoided;\n(c) the methods of compliance which are open to the individual; and\n(d) the individual’s right to apply to the court for the demand to be set aside.\n(3) The demand must specify the name and address (and telephone number, if any) of one or more persons with whom the individual may, if he wishes, enter into communication with a view to establishing to the Authority’s satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due or (as the case may be) that the debt will be scoured or compounded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "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/5",
    "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."
}