{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-12.49.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/12.49",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.49",
  "heading": "Costs and expenses of petitioners and other specified persons",
  "text": "(1) The petitioner is not to receive an allowance as a witness for attending the hearing of the petition.\n(2) However the costs officer may allow that person's expenses of travelling and subsistence in attending the hearing.\n(3) The bankrupt, the debtor or an officer of the insolvent company to which the proceedings relate is not to receive an allowance as a witness in an examination or other proceedings before the court except as directed by the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 12.46-12.53 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 78-82, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/12.49",
    "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."
}