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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-5.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-5.3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Administration Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/5.3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5.3",
  "heading": "Proving a debt",
  "text": "(1) A creditor wishing to recover a debt must submit a proof to the education administrator unless this rule or an order of the court provides otherwise.\n(2) A creditor is deemed to have proved for the purposes of determination and payment of a dividend but not otherwise where—\n(a) the debt is a small debt;\n(b) a notice has been delivered to the creditor of notice of intention to declare a dividend or make a distribution under rule 5.26 which complies with rule 5.27 and 5.28; and\n(c) the creditor has not advised the education administrator that the debt is incorrect or not owed in response to the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1135/article/5.3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:44.908739+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."
}