{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-10.27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-10.27.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/10.27",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "10.27",
  "heading": "Substitution of petitioner",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the petitioner—\n(a) is subsequently found not to have been entitled to present the petition;\n(b) consents to withdraw the petition or to allow it to be dismissed;\n(c) consents to an adjournment;\n(d) fails to appear in support of the petition when it is called on in court on the day originally fixed for the hearing, or on a day to which it is adjourned; or\n(e) appears, but does not apply for an order in the terms of the petition.\n(2) The court may, on such terms as it thinks just, substitute as petitioner a person who—\n(a) has delivered a notice under rule 10.19 of intention to appear at the hearing;\n(b) is willing to prosecute the petition; and\n(c) was, in the case of a creditor, at the date on which the petition was presented, in such a position in relation to the debtor as would have enabled the creditor on that date to present a bankruptcy petition in relation to a debt or debts owed to that creditor by the debtor, paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 267(2) being satisfied in relation to that debt or those debts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/10.27",
    "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."
}