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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.65.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/2.65",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.65",
  "heading": "Formal defects",
  "text": "The acts of the creditors' committee established for any administration are valid notwithstanding any defect in the appointment, election or qualifications of any member of the committee or any committee-member’s representative or in the formalities of its establishment.",
  "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2580",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Society Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for rule 4.54(5)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/357",
      "affecting_title": "The Bank Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1925/rule/2.65",
    "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."
}