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Rule 2.96 Admission or rejection of proofsF1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  • rule 2.96(1) words substituted by Insolvency 2010 Sch. 1 para. 86(2)(a)
  • rule 2.96(1)(a) words inserted by Insolvency 2010 Sch. 1 para. 86(2)(b)
  • rule 4.54(5-CVL) substituted for rule 4.54(5) by Insolvency 2010 Sch. 1 para. 179(5)
(1)

Unless he has already dealt with them, within 7 days of the last date for proving, the administrator shall—

(a)

admit or reject proofs submitted to him; or

(b)

make such provision in respect of them as he thinks fit.

(2)

The administrator is not obliged to deal with proofs lodged after the last date for proving, but he may do so, if he thinks fit.

(3)

In the declaration of a dividend no payment shall be made more than once by virtue of the same debt.

(4)

Subject to Rule 2.104, where—

(a)

a creditor has proved; and

(b)

a member State liquidator has proved in relation to the same debt,

payment shall only be made to the creditor.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

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))