{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-4.21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/4.21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4.21",
  "heading": "Transmission and advertisement of order",
  "text": "(1) When the winding-up order has been made, 3 copies of it, sealed with the seal of the court, shall be sent forthwith by the court to the official receiver.\n(2) The official receiver shall cause a sealed copy of the order to be served on the company by prepaid letter addressed to it at its registered office (if any) or, if there is no registered office, at its principal or last known principal place of business.\nAlternatively, the order may be served on such other person or persons, or in such other manner, as the court directs.\n(3) The official receiver shall forward to the registrar of companies the copy of the order which by section 130(1) is directed to be so forwarded by the company.\n(4) The official receiver shall forthwith—\n(a) cause the order to be gazetted, and\n(b) advertise the order in such ... newspaper as the official receiver may select.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 4.21(4) omitted (2.4.1991) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/495), rule 1, Sch. para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 4.21 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/4.21",
    "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."
}