{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2015/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2015/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/262",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Creditors’ meeting generally",
  "text": "In Rule 2.036, for paragraph (7) substitute—\n“(7) (a) If within 30 minutes from the time fixed for commencement of the meeting those persons attending the meeting do not constitute a quorum, the chairman may adjourn the meeting to such time and place as the chairman may appoint;\n(b) once only in the course of the meeting the chairman may, without an adjournment, declare the meeting suspended for any period up to one hour;\n(c) the chairman may, and shall if the meeting so resolves, adjourn the meeting to such time and place as seems to the chairman to be appropriate in the circumstances;\n(d) an adjournment under this paragraph shall not be for a period of more than 14 days, subject to the direction of the court;\n(e) if there are subsequently further adjournments, the final adjournment shall not be to a day later than 14 days after the date on which the meeting was originally held;\n(f) where a meeting is adjourned under this Rule, proofs and proxies may be used if lodged at any time up to 12.00 hours on the business day immediately before the adjourned meeting;\n(g) paragraph (3) of this Rule applies with regard to the venue fixed for a meeting adjourned under this Rule”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/262/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:10.339443+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."
}