{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.13.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/12.13",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.13",
  "heading": "Adjournment of the hearing of an application",
  "text": "(1) The court may adjourn the hearing of an application on such terms as it thinks just.\n(2) The court may give directions as to the manner in which any evidence is to be provided at a resumed hearing and in particular as to—\n(a) the taking of evidence wholly or partly by witness statement or orally;\n(b) the cross-examination of the maker of a witness statement; or\n(c) any report to be made by an office-holder.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 12.13 applied (with modifications) (temp.) (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 4 para. 47 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), Sch. 4 para. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Rule 12.13 applied (with modifications) (30.9.2021) by S.I. 2014/229, art. 2(2A), Sch. 1A paras. 1(4)(5), 35, 38 (as inserted by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Administration) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1048), arts. 1(1), 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 12 Ch. 3 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5(1)(c), 64 (with rule 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Rules 12.6-12.31 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 62-73, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/12.13",
    "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."
}