{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.14.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/12.14",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.14",
  "heading": "Applications under section 176A(5) to disapply section 176A",
  "text": "(1) An application under section 176A(5) must be accompanied by a witness statement of the liquidator, administrator or receiver.\n(2) The witness statement must state—\n(a) the type of insolvency proceedings in which the application arises;\n(b) a summary of the financial position of the company;\n(c) the information substantiating the applicant's view that the cost of making a distribution to unsecured creditors would be disproportionate to the benefits; and\n(d) whether any other office-holder is acting in relation to the company and, if so, that office-holder's address.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "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/12.14",
    "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."
}