{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-14.45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-14.45.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/14.45",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "14.45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) No action lies against the office-holder in an administration or winding up for payment of a dividend.\n(2) However, if the office-holder refuses to pay a dividend the court may, if it thinks just, order the office-holder to pay it and also to pay, out of the office-holder's own money—\n(a) interest on the dividend, at the rate for the time being specified in section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838 , from the time when it was withheld; and\n(b) the costs of the proceedings in which the order to pay is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 17 has been amended by the Statute Law Revision (No 2) Act 1888 (c.57), article 2 of S.I. 1993/564, article 3 of S.I. 1998/2940, Part 1 of the Schedule to the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act 1879 (c.59) and article 3(c) of S.I. 1998/3132."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 14.37-14.45 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 109-113, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/14.45",
    "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."
}