{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-379C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-379C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "section/379C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "379C",
  "heading": "Creditors' ability to opt out of receiving certain notices",
  "text": "(1) Any provision of the rules which requires an office-holder to give a notice to creditors of an individual does not apply, in circumstances prescribed by the rules, in relation to opted-out creditors.\n(2) Subsection (1)—\n(a) does not apply in relation to a notice of a distribution or proposed distribution to creditors;\n(b) is subject to any order of the court requiring a notice to be given to all creditors (or all creditors of a particular category).\n(3) Except as provided by the rules, a creditor may participate and vote in a creditors' decision procedure or a deemed consent procedure even though, by virtue of being an opted-out creditor, the creditor does not receive notice of it.\n(4) In this section—\n“give” includes deliver, furnish or send;\n“notice” includes any document or information in any other form;\n“office-holder”, in relation to an individual, means—\n(a)where a bankruptcy order is made against the individual, the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy;\n(b)where an interim receiver of the individual's property is appointed, the interim receiver;\n(c)the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part 8 in relation to the individual.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 379C inserted (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), ss. 125(3), 164(1); S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(d); S.I. 2016/1020, reg. 4(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/379C",
    "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."
}