{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.171",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.171.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/4.171",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.171",
  "heading": "Composition of committee when creditors paid in full",
  "text": "(1) This Rule applies if the liquidator issues a certificate that the creditors have been paid in full, with interest in accordance with section 189.\n(2) [FORM 4.50] The liquidator shall forthwith file the certificate in court. (NO CVL APPLICATION)\n(3-CVL) [FORM 4.51] The liquidator shall forthwith send a copy of the certificate to the registrar of companies.\n(4) The creditor members of the liquidation committee cease to be members of the committee.\n(5) The committee continues in being unless and until abolished by decision of a meeting of contributories, and (subject to the next paragraph) so long as it consists of at least 3 contributory members.\n(6) The committee does not cease to exist on account of the number of contributory members falling below 3, unless and until 28 days have elapsed since the issue of the liquidator's certificate under paragraph (1).\nBut at any time when the committee consists of less than 3 contributory members, it is suspended and cannot act.\n(7) Contributories may be co-opted by the liquidator, or appointed by a contributories' meeting, to be members of the committee; but the maximum number of members is 5.\n(8) The foregoing Rules in this Chapter continue to apply to the liquidation committee (with any necessary modifications) as if all the members of the committee were creditor members.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.171 in force at 29.12.1986, see rule 0.1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted by SI 2009/356 rule 133(2) (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/4.171",
    "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."
}