{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.124.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/4.124",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.124",
  "heading": "Release of official receiver",
  "text": "(NO CVL APPLICATION)\n(1) The official receiver shall, before giving notice to the Secretary of State under section 174(3) (that the winding up is for practical purposes complete), send out notice of his intention to do so to all creditors of which he is aware.\n(2) The notice shall in each case be accompanied by a summary of the official receiver's receipts and payments as liquidator.\n(2A) The summary of receipts and payments referred to in paragraph (2) shall also include a statement as to the amount paid to unsecured creditors by virtue of the application of section 176A (prescribed part).\n(3) The Secretary of State, when he has determined the date from which the official receiver is to have his release, shall give notice to the court that he has done so. The notice shall be accompanied by the summary referred to in paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 4.124(1) substituted (1.4.2004) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 4.124(2A) inserted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.124 in force at 29.12.1986, see rule 0.1"
    }
  ],
  "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/4.124",
    "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."
}