{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-177",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005/article-177.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2483",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Administration Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-administration-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/177",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "177",
  "heading": "“The court”; “the registrar”",
  "text": "(1) Anything to be done in energy administration proceedings by, to or before the court may be done by, to or before a judge or the registrar.\n(2) The registrar may authorise any act of a formal or administrative character which is not by statute his responsibility to be carried out by the chief clerk or any other officer of the court acting on his behalf, in accordance with directions given by the Lord Chancellor.\n(3) In energy administration proceedings, “the registrar” means—\n(a) subject to the following paragraph, an Insolvency and Companies Court Judge;\n(b) where the proceedings are in the District Registry of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Preston, the District Registrar.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 177(3)(a) substituted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 12(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 177 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2483/article/177",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:53.544569+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."
}