{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-17.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-17.6.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/17.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17.6",
  "heading": "Liquidation committee established by contributories",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where, under section 141, the creditors do not decide that a liquidation committee should be established, or decide that a committee should not be established.\n(2) The contributories may decide to appoint one of their number to make application to the court for an order requiring the liquidator to seek a further decision from the creditors on whether to establish a liquidation committee; and—\n(a) the court may, if it thinks that there are special circumstances to justify it, make such an order; and\n(b) the creditors' decision sought by the liquidator in compliance with the order is deemed to have been a decision under section 141.\n(3) If the creditors decide under paragraph (2)(b) not to establish a liquidation committee, the contributories may establish a committee.\n(4) The committee must then consist of at least three, and not more than five, contributories elected by the contributories; and rule 17.5 applies, substituting for the reference to rule 17.3 in rule 17.5(8) a reference to this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/17.6",
    "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."
}