{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.23.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/12.23",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.23",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This sub-division applies where it appears to the court in insolvency proceedings that a person affected by the proceedings is unable to manage and administer that person's own property and affairs by reason of —\n(a) lacking capacity within the meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ;\n(b) suffering from a physical affliction; or\n(c) disability.\n(2) Such a person is referred to in this sub-division as “the incapacitated person”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2005 c.9."
    },
    {
      "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/12.23",
    "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."
}