{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/2.27",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.27",
  "heading": "Notification and advertisement of administrator’s appointment",
  "text": "(1) The administrator shall advertise his appointment once in the Gazette, and once in such newspaper as he thinks most appropriate for ensuring that the appointment comes to the notice of the company’s creditors. The advertisement shall be in [FORM 2.5]Form 2.11B.\n(2) The administrator shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the date specified in paragraph 46(6), give notice of his appointment—\n(a) if a receiver or an administrative receiver has been appointed, to him;\n(b) if there is pending a petition for the winding up of the company, to the petitioner (and also to the provisional liquidator, if any);\n(c) to any enforcement officer who, to the administrator’s knowledge, is charged with execution or other legal process against the company;\n(d) to any person who, to the administrator’s knowledge, has distrained against the company or its property; and\n(e) any supervisor of a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Act.\n(3) Where, under a provision of Schedule B1 to the Act or these Rules, the administrator is required to send a notice of his appointment to any person he shall do so in [FORM 2.6]Form 2.12B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 substituted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 9 (with rule 5(2)-(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 2.27(2)(c) substituted (1.4.2005) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/527), rules 1(2), 7"
    }
  ],
  "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/2.27",
    "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."
}