{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-3.65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-3.65.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/3.65",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.65",
  "heading": "Application to court to remove administrator from office",
  "text": "(1) An application for an order under paragraph 88 of Schedule B1 that the administrator be removed from office must state the grounds on which the order is requested.\n(2) A copy of the application must be delivered, not less than five business days before the date fixed for the hearing—\n(a) to the administrator;\n(b) to the person who—\n(i) made the application for the administration order, or\n(ii) appointed the administrator;\n(c) to the creditors' committee (if any);\n(d) to any continuing administrator appointed to act jointly or concurrently; and\n(e) where there is neither a creditors' committee nor a continuing administrator appointed, to the company and the creditors, including any floating charge holders.\n(3) The court must deliver to the applicant a copy of any order removing the administrator.\n(4) The applicant must deliver a copy—\n(a) as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within five business days of the copy order being delivered, to the administrator; and\n(b) within five business days of the copy order being delivered, to—\n(i) all other persons to whom notice of the application was delivered, and\n(ii) the registrar of companies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 3.59-3.70 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 51-60, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/3.65",
    "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."
}