{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-381",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-381.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "section/381",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "381",
  "heading": "“Bankrupt” and associated terminology.",
  "text": "(1) “Bankrupt” means an individual who has been made bankrupt and, in relation to a bankruptcy order, it means the individual made bankrupt by that order.\n(1A) Bankruptcy application” means an application to an adjudicator for a bankruptcy order.\n(2) “Bankruptcy order” means an order making an individual bankrupt.\n(3) “Bankruptcy petition” means a petition to the court for a bankruptcy order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 381(1) substituted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 52(2); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 381(1A) inserted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 52(3); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 381(2) substituted (6.4.2016) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 19 para. 52(4); S.I. 2016/191, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 381 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/381",
    "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."
}