{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015-consequential-amendments-savings-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015-consequential-amendments-savings-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111162675",
  "legislation_title": "The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015-consequential-amendments-savings-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 4",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“the 1986 Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“the 2000 Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“the 2009 Act” means the Banking Act 2009; and\n“relevant meeting” means a meeting of creditors which is to be held on or after the date on which Parts 2 and 3 of these Regulations come into force, and was—\n(a) called, summoned or otherwise required before 6th April 2017 under a provision of the 1986 Act or the Insolvency Rules 1986;\n(b) requisitioned by a creditor before 6th April 2017 under a provision of the 1986 Act or the Insolvency Rules 1986; or\n(c) called or summoned under section 106, 146 or 331 of the 1986 Act as a result of—\n(i) a final report to creditors sent before 6th April 2017 under rule 4.49D of the Insolvency Rules 1986 (final report to creditors in liquidation);\n(ii) a final report to creditors and bankrupt sent before that date under rule 6.78B of those Rules (final report to creditors and bankrupt).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The amendments made by these Regulations, for which Part 4 makes transitional provision, are made in consequence of the commencement on 6th April 2017 (by S.I. 2016/1020) for all remaining purposes in England and Wales of the following sections of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015: sections 122 and 123 (abolition of requirements to hold meetings: company insolvency and individual insolvency); sections 124 and 125 of that Act (ability for creditors to opt not to receive certain notices: company insolvency and individual insolvency); and section 126 of, and Schedule 9 to, that Act (sections 122 to 125: further amendments)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1925."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Rules 4.49D and 6.78B were inserted by S.I. 2010/686."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111162675/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:05:43.896119+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."
}