{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/12",
  "legislation_title": "Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commercial-rent-coronavirus-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Prohibition on presenting a winding-up petition solely in relation to a protected rent debt",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where a landlord under a business tenancy is owed a protected rent debt and the tenant is a company.\n(2) The landlord may not, during the moratorium period for the debt, present a petition for the winding up of the company under section 124 of the Insolvency Act 1986 on a ground specified—\n(a) in the case of a registered company, in section 122(1)(f) of that Act, or\n(b) in the case of an unregistered company, in section 221(5)(b) of that Act,\nunless the landlord is owed a debt by the company which is not a protected rent debt.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“the moratorium period”, in relation to a protected rent debt, has the same meaning as in section 23;\n“registered company” means a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales or Scotland;\n“unregistered company” has the same meaning as in Part 5 of the Insolvency Act 1986.\n(4) This paragraph, so far as relating to registered companies, applies to limited liability partnerships.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 1.4.2022, see s. 31(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/12/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:19.451396+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."
}