{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-14.29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-14.29.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/14.29",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "14.29",
  "heading": "Individual notices to creditors etc. of intended dividend or distribution",
  "text": "(1) The office-holder must deliver a notice of the intention to make a distribution to creditors or declare a dividend—\n(a) to the creditors in an administration; and\n(b) to all creditors in a winding up or a bankruptcy who have not proved (including any creditors who are owed small debts and are not deemed under rule 14.3(3) to have proved as a result of a previous notice under rule 14.29).\n(2) Paragraph (2A) applies where the intended dividend is only for one or both of the following—\n(a) preferential creditors, or\n(b) creditors in respect of a debt which is a moratorium debt or a priority pre-moratorium debt within the meaning given by section 174A.\n(2A) Where this paragraph applies the office-holder is only required to deliver the notice to those creditors referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(a) or (b) for whom the dividend is intended.\n(3) Where the office-holder intends to declare a dividend to unsecured creditors in an administration or winding-up the notice must also state the value of the prescribed part unless there is no prescribed part or the court has made an order under section 176A(5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 14.29(2) substituted (1.10.2021) by The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rules 1, 62(2) (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 14.29(2A) inserted (1.10.2021) by The Insolvency (England and Wales) (No.2) (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1028), rules 1, 62(3) (with rules 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 14.28-14.35 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 104-108, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/14.29",
    "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."
}