{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-3.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/rule-3.7.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/3.7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.7",
  "heading": "Filing of application",
  "text": "(1) The application must be filed with the court together with the witness statement in support and the proposed administrator's consent to act.\n(2) The court must fix a venue for the hearing of the application.\n(3) There must also be filed, at the same time as the application or at any time after that, a sufficient number of copies of the application and the statement for service in accordance with rule 3.8.\n(4) Each of the copies filed must—\n(a) have applied to it the seal of the court;\n(b) be endorsed with—\n(i) the date and time of filing, and\n(ii) the venue fixed by the court; and\n(c) be delivered by the court to the applicant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules 3.6-3.9 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5, 36, 37, Sch. (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/rule/3.7",
    "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."
}