{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-10.55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-10.55.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/10.55",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "10.55",
  "heading": "Notice requiring statement of affairs (section 288)",
  "text": "(1) Where, under section 288 , the official receiver requires a bankrupt to provide the official receiver with a statement of affairs, the official receiver must deliver a notice to the bankrupt.\n(2) The notice must be headed “Notice requiring statement of affairs” and must—\n(a) require the bankrupt to prepare and submit to the official receiver a statement of affairs;\n(b) inform the bankrupt of the date by which the statement must be delivered; and\n(c) state the effect of section 288(4) (penalty for non-compliance) and section 291 (duty to co-operate).\n(3) The official receiver must deliver instructions for the preparation of the statement of affairs with the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 288 is amended by paragraph 18 of Schedule 19 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24) and by paragraph 15 of Schedule 6 to the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/10.55",
    "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."
}