{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.36.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/12.36",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.36",
  "heading": "Power to make a block transfer order",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where an office-holder (‘the outgoing office-holder’)—\n(a) dies;\n(b) retires from practice; or\n(c) is otherwise unable or unwilling to continue in office;\nand it is expedient to transfer some or all of the cases in which the outgoing office-holder holds office to one or more office-holders (‘the replacement office-holder’) in a single transaction.\n(2) In a case to which this rule applies the court has the power to make an order (‘a block transfer order’) appointing a replacement office-holder in the place of the outgoing office-holder to be—\n(a) liquidator in any winding up (including a case where the official receiver is the liquidator by virtue of section 136) ;\n(b) administrator in any administration;\n(c) trustee in a bankruptcy (including a case where the official receiver is the trustee by virtue of section 300 ); ...\n(d) supervisor of a CVA or an IVA ; or\n(e) a monitor in respect of a moratorium under Part A1 of the Act.\n(3) The replacement office-holder must be—\n(a) qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to the company or bankrupt; or\n(b) where the replacement office-holder is to be appointed supervisor of an IVA—\n(i) qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to the debtor, or\n(ii) a person authorised so to act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 12.36(2)(c) omitted (1.10.2021) by virtue of The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rules 1, 48(a) (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 12.36(2)(d) inserted (1.10.2021) by The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rules 1, 48(b) (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 12.36(2)(e) inserted (1.10.2021) by The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rules 1, 48(c) (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 136(4), (5)(a) and (c) and (6) are amended by paragraph 31 of Schedule 9 to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 300(4) and (8)_ is amended, (3) is substituted and (3A) is inserted by paragraph 79 of Schedule 9 to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c.26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 12.36 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": "Rules 12.35-12.38 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/12.36",
    "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."
}