{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-1.14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-1.14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/1.14",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1.14",
  "heading": "The chairman at meetings",
  "text": "(1) Subject as follows, at both the creditors' meeting and the company meeting, and at any combined meeting, the convener shall be chairman.\n(2) If for any reason he is unable to attend, he may nominate another person to act as chairman in his place; but a person so nominated must be ...—\n(a) a person qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner in relation to the company;\n(b) an authorised person in relation to the company; or\n(c) an employee of the convenor or his firm who is experienced in insolvency matters.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 1.14(2) omitted (1.1.2003) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2712), rule 1(1), Sch. para. 7(a) (with rule 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 1.14(2)(a)-(c) substituted (1.1.2003) for rule 1.14(2)(a)(b) by The Insolvency (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2712), rule 1(1), Sch. para. 7(b) (with rule 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1.14 in force at 29.12.1986, see rule 0.1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for rule 4.54(5)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1925/rule/1.14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:38:55.219722+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."
}