{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-16.9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-16.9.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/16.9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16.9",
  "heading": "Instrument conferring authorisation to represent corporation",
  "text": "(1) A person authorised to represent a corporation (other than as a proxy-holder) at a meeting of creditors or contributories must produce to the chair—\n(a) the instrument conferring the authority; or\n(b) a copy of it certified as a true copy by—\n(i) two directors,\n(ii) a director and the secretary, or\n(iii) a director in the presence of a witness who attests the director's signature.\n(2) The instrument conferring the authority must have been executed in accordance with section 44(1) to (3) of the Companies Act unless the instrument is the constitution of the corporation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2006 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 16.9 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 140, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/16.9",
    "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."
}