{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-345",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-345.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "section/345",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "345",
  "heading": "Contracts to which bankrupt is a party.",
  "text": "(1) The following applies where a contract has been made with a person who is subsequently made bankrupt.\n(2) The court may, on the application of any other paty to the contract, make an order discharging obligations under the contract on such terms as to payment by the applicant or the bankrupt of damages for non-performance or otherwise as appear to the court to be equitable.\n(3) Any damages payable by the bankrupt by virtue of an order of the court under this section are provable as a bankruptcy debt.\n(4) Where an undischarged bankrupt is a contractor in respect of any contract jointly with any person, that person may sue or be sued in respect of the contract without the joinder of the bankrupt.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 345(1) substituted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 38; S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 342–345 applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/1999, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 345 excluded (25.4.1991) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40), ss. 154, 155, 164(1), 182(4), Sch. 22 para. 7(1); S.I. 1991/878, art. 2, Sch. .S. 345 excluded (11.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/2979, reg. 16(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/345",
    "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."
}