{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-1.21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-1.21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1024",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016",
  "path": "rule/1.21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1.21",
  "heading": "Standard contents of all documents",
  "text": "(1) A document to be delivered to the registrar of companies must—\n(a) identify the company;\n(b) state—\n(i) the nature of the document,\n(ii) the section of the Act, the paragraph of Schedule ... B1 or the rule under which the document is delivered,\n(iii) the date of the document,\n(iv) the name and address of the person delivering the document, and\n(v) the capacity in which that person is acting in relation to the company; and\n(c) be authenticated by the person delivering the document.\n(2) Where the person delivering the document is the office-holder, the address may be omitted if it has previously been notified to the registrar of companies in the proceedings and is unchanged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 1.21(1)(b)(ii) omitted (1.10.2021) by virtue of The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 3 Table (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 1.18-1.58 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 12-33, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/1.21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:19:01.539785+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."
}