{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-276",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-276.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "section/276",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "276",
  "heading": "Default in connection with voluntary arrangement.",
  "text": "(1) The court shall not make a bankruptcy order on a petition under section 264(1)(c) (supervisor of, or person bound by, voluntary arrangement proposed and approved) unless it is satisfied—\n(a) that the debtor has failed to comply with his obligations under the voluntary arrangement, or\n(b) that information which was false or misleading in any material particular or which contained material omissions—\n(i) was contained in any statement of affairs or other document supplied by the debtor under Part VIII to any person, or\n(ii) was otherwise made available by the debtor to his creditors in connection with a creditors' decision procedure instigated under that Part, or\n(c) that the debtor has failed to do all such things as may for the purposes of the voluntary arrangement have been reasonably required of him by the supervisor of the arrangement.\n(2) Where a bankruptcy order is made on a petition under section 264(1)(c), any expenses properly incurred as expenses of the administration of the voluntary arrangement in question shall be a first charge on the bankrupt’s estate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 276(1)(b)(ii) substituted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 6.4.2017 for E.W. in so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 9 para. 73; S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(d); S.I. 2016/1020, reg. 4(e) (with reg. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2017/363, reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S.276(2) applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/1999, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/276",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:55:00.443447+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."
}