{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-386",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-386.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/45",
  "legislation_title": "Insolvency Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986",
  "path": "section/386",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "386",
  "heading": "Categories of preferential debts.",
  "text": "(1) A reference in this Act to the preferential debts of a company or an individual is to the debts listed in Schedule 6 to this Act (contributions to occupational pension schemes; remuneration, &c. of employees; levies on coal and steel production ; debts owed to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ; deposits covered by Financial Services Compensation Scheme ; other deposits ; certain HMRC debts); and references to preferential creditors are to be read accordingly.\n(1A) A reference in this Act to the “ordinary preferential debts” of a company or an individual is to the preferential debts listed in any of paragraphs 8 to 15B of Schedule 6 to this Act.\n(1B) A reference in this Act to the “secondary preferential debts” of a company or an individual is to the preferential debts listed in paragraph 15BA , 15BB or 15D of Schedule 6 to this Act.\n(2) In Schedule 6 “the debtor” means the company or the individual concerned.\n(3) Schedule 6 is to be read with Schedule 4 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (occupational pension scheme contributions).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1) substituted (15.9.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 251(3), 279 (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1) inserted (26.3.2015) by The Deposit Guarantee Scheme Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/486), regs. 1(2), 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1) inserted (31.12.2014) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 13(2), 148(5); S.I. 2014/3160, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Banks and Building Societies (Depositor Preference and Priorities) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3486), arts. 1(2), 8(2) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1) inserted (with application in accordance with s. 98(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), s. 98(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 386(1A)(1B) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Banks and Building Societies (Depositor Preference and Priorities) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3486), arts. 1(2), 8(3) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(1B) substituted (with application in accordance with s. 98(7) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2020 (c. 14), s. 98(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(2) substituted (1.1.2015) by The Banks and Building Societies (Depositor Preference and Priorities) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3486), arts. 1(2), 8(4) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 386(3) substituted (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 190, Sch. 8 para. 18 (with s. 6(8)); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 386 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1986/1999, art. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 386 applied (with modifications) (17.2.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 103, 263(1)(2) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 386 applied (with modifications) (17.2.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 145, 263(1)(2) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 386 applied (with modifications) (8.7.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/716), regs. 2, 37, Sch. 1 para. 3 (with reg. 5) (as amended (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2023/1399, regs. 1(2), 4, 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/386",
    "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."
}