{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.31.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/12.31",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.31",
  "heading": "Proceedings commenced in the wrong court",
  "text": "Where insolvency proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or hearing centre, that court may order—\n(a) the proceedings be transferred to the court or hearing centre in which they ought to have been commenced;\n(b) the proceedings be continued in the court in which they have been commenced; or\n(c) the proceedings be struck out.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 12.31 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 12.31 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": "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/12.31",
    "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."
}