{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2016/schedule-3.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": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Punishment of offences under these Rules",
  "text": "Rule creating offence\nGeneral nature of the offence\nMode of prosecution\nPunishment\nDaily default fine (if applicable)\n1.56(3)\nFalsely claiming to be a person entitled to inspect a document with the intention of gaining sight of it.\n1. On indictment.\n2. Summary.\n2 years, or a fine, or both.\n6 months, or a fine, or both.\nNot applicable.\n3.55(7)\nFormer administrator failing to file a notice of automatic end of administration and progress report.\nSummary.\nLevel 3 on the standard scale.\nOne tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.\n3.70(2)\nFailing to comply with administrator's duties on vacating office.\nSummary.\nLevel 3 on the standard scale.\nOne tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.\n4.17(6)\nAdministrative receiver failing to deliver required accounts of receipts and payments.\nSummary.\nLevel 3 on the standard scale.\nOne tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.\n6.14(13)\nDirectors failing to seek a decision on the nomination of a liquidator.\n1. On indictment.\n2. Summary.\n1. A fine.\n2. A fine.\nNot applicable.\n18.6(5)\nAdministrator failing to deliver required progress reports in accordance with rule 18.6.\nSummary.\nLevel 3 on the standard scale.\nOne tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 applied (with modifications) (19.3.2024) by The Water Industry (Special Administration) (England and Wales) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/229), rules 1, 5(1)(d) (with rule 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/schedule/3",
    "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."
}