{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-15B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986/section-15B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/46",
  "legislation_title": "Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/company-directors-disqualification-act-1986",
  "path": "section/15B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15B",
  "heading": "Amounts payable under compensation orders and undertakings",
  "text": "(1) A compensation order is an order requiring the person against whom it is made to pay an amount specified in the order—\n(a) to the Secretary of State for the benefit of—\n(i) a creditor or creditors specified in the order;\n(ii) a class or classes of creditor so specified;\n(b) as a contribution to the assets of a company so specified.\n(2) A compensation undertaking is an undertaking to pay an amount specified in the undertaking—\n(a) to the Secretary of State for the benefit of—\n(i) a creditor or creditors specified in the undertaking;\n(ii) a class or classes of creditor so specified;\n(b) as a contribution to the assets of a company so specified.\n(3) When specifying an amount the court (in the case of an order) and the Secretary of State (in the case of an undertaking) must in particular have regard to—\n(a) the amount of the loss caused;\n(b) the nature of the conduct mentioned in section 15A(3)(b);\n(c) whether the person has made any other financial contribution in recompense for the conduct (whether under a statutory provision or otherwise).\n(4) An amount payable by virtue of subsection (2) under a compensation undertaking is recoverable as if payable under a court order.\n(5) An amount payable under a compensation order or compensation undertaking is provable as a bankruptcy debt.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 15A-15C and cross-heading inserted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), ss. 110, 164(1); S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(c); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(f) (with Sch. para. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 13-15C applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1994/2421, art. 16, Sch. 8 (as amended (E.W.) (8.12.2017) by The Insolvency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1119), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 paras. 4, 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/46/section/15B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:56.770430+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."
}