{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.116.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/4.116",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.116",
  "heading": "Procedure on removal",
  "text": "(NO CVL APPLICATION)\n(1) Where the creditors have resolved that the liquidator be removed, the official receiver shall file in court the certificate of removal.\n(2) The resolution is effective as from the date on which the official receiver files the certificate of removal in court, and that date shall be endorsed on the certificate.\n(3) A copy of the certificate, so endorsed, shall be sent by the official receiver to the liquidator who has been removed and, if a new liquidator has been appointed, to him.\n(4) The official receiver shall not file the certificate in court unless and until the Secretary of State has certified to him that the removed liquidator has reconciled his account with that held by the Secretary of State in respect of the winding up.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.116 in force at 29.12.1986, see rule 0.1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted by SI 2009/356 rule 92(3) (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2579",
      "affecting_title": "The Bank Insolvency (England and Wales) (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted by SI 2009/356 rule 92(3) (as amended)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2579",
      "affecting_title": "The Bank Insolvency (England and Wales) (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/4.116",
    "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."
}