{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-2.96.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/2.96",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.96",
  "heading": "Admission or rejection of proofs",
  "text": "(1) Unless he has already dealt with them, within 7 days of the last date for proving, the administrator shall—\n(a) admit or reject proofs submitted to him; or\n(b) make such provision in respect of them as he thinks fit.\n(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.\n(3) In the declaration of a dividend no payment shall be made more than once by virtue of the same debt.\n(4) Subject to Rule 2.104, where—\n(a) a creditor has proved; and\n(b) a member State liquidator has proved in relation to the same debt,\npayment shall only be made to the creditor.",
  "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": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    },
    {
      "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/2.96",
    "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."
}