{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.57.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/2.57",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.57",
  "heading": "Termination of membership",
  "text": "(1) Membership of the creditors' committee is automatically terminated if the member—\n(a) becomes bankrupt ...; or\n(b) at 3 consecutive meetings of the committee is neither present nor represented (unless at the third of those meetings it is resolved that this Rule is not to apply in his case); or\n(c) ceases to be, or is found never to have been, a creditor.\n(2) However, if the cause of termination is the member’s bankruptcy, his trustee in bankruptcy replaces him as a member of the committee.",
  "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 2.57(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2004) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rule 1(2), 5"
    }
  ],
  "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/2.57",
    "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."
}