{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.138",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.138.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/4.138",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.138",
  "heading": "Liquidator's duties on vacating office",
  "text": "(1) Where the liquidator ceases to be in office as such, in consequence of removal, resignation or cesser of qualification as an insolvency practitioner, he is under obligation forthwith to deliver up to the person succeeding him as liquidator the assets (after deduction of any expenses properly incurred, and distributions made, by him) and further to deliver up to that person—\n(a) the records of the liquidation, including correspondence, proofs and other related papers appertaining to the administration while it was within his responsibility, and\n(b) the company's books, papers and other records.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Where the liquidator vacates office under section 172(8) (final meeting of creditors), he shall deliver up to the official receiver the company’s books, papers and other records which have not already been disposed of in accordance with general regulations in the course of the liquidation. (NO CVL APPLICATION)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 4.138(2) omitted (1.4.2004) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 4.138(3) added (11.1.1988 with application in accordance with rule 3(1)(2)) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1987 (S.I. 1987/1919), rule 1, Sch. para. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.138 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/4.138",
    "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."
}