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Article 4 Abolition of Crown preference—transitional provisions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

This article applies to a case where before the first commencement date—

(a)

a petition for an administration order pursuant to Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 is presented;

(b)

a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 has effect;

(c)

a receiver is appointed under the terms of a charge (which when created was a floating charge) in relation to the property of a company subject to the charge;

(d)

a petition for a winding-up order is presented;

(e)

a resolution for the winding up of the company is passed;

(f)

a petition for a bankruptcy order (or, in Scotland, for sequestration) is presented; or

(g)

a voluntary arrangement pursuant to Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 has effect.

(2)

This article also applies to a case where proposals for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 are made (whether before or after the first commencement date) by—

(a)

a liquidator in a winding up where the winding-up petition is presented or, as the case may be, the resolution for winding up is passed, before the first commencement date; or

(b)

an administrator appointed in relation to an administration under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 where the administration order is made on a petition which is presented before the first commencement date.

(3)

This article also applies to a case in which a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 is made (whether before or after the first commencement date) by a person who was adjudged bankrupt on a petition which was presented before the first commencement date.

(4)

In a case to which this article applies—

(a)

the provisions of section 251; and

(b)

the provisions of section 278(2) and Schedule 26 as respects the repeals relating to paragraphs 1 to 3 and 8 to 8C in Schedule 3 to the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985f1, paragraphs 1 to 7 of Schedule 6 to the Insolvency Act 1986f2, the table in paragraph 32 of Schedule 29 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988f3, paragraphs 21A and 22 of Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 1991f4, paragraph 73 of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992f5, sections 36(1) to (3) of the Finance Act 1993f6, paragraphs 13(1) and 13(2) of Schedule 6 and paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 1994f7, paragraph 8 of Schedule 14 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994f8, section 17 of the Finance Act 1995f9, paragraphs 12(1) and 12(2) of Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1996f10, sections 166(7)(a), 183(3)(a) and 189(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996f11, paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 1997f12, paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 7 to the Finance Act 2000f13 and paragraphs 17(1) and (2) and 18 of Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 2001f14,

shall not have effect.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1985 c. 36.

f2

1986 c. 45.

f3

1988 c. 1.

f4

1991 c. 31. Paragraph 21A was inserted into Schedule 2 by s. 9 of the Finance (No.2) Act 1992 (c. 48).

f5

1992 c. 6.

f6

1993 c. 34.

f7

1994 c. 9.

f8

1994 c. 23.

f9

1995 c. 4.

f10

1996 c. 8.

f11

1996 c. 18.

f12

1997 c. 16.

f13

2000 c. 17.

f14

2001 c. 9.