{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.10",
  "heading": "Procedure for presentation and filing",
  "text": "(1) The petition, verified by affidavit in accordance with Rule 6.12(1) below, shall be filed in court.\n(2) No petition shall be filed unless there is produced on presentation of the petition a receipt for the deposit payable or paragraph (2A) applies.\n(2A) This paragraph applies in any case where the Secretary of State has given written notice to the court that the petitioner has made suitable alternative arrangements for the payment of the deposit to the official receiver and such notice has not been revoked in relation to the petitioner in accordance with paragraph (2B).\n(2B) A notice of the kind referred to in paragraph (2A) may be revoked in relation to the petitioner in whose favour it is given by a further notice in writing to the court stating that the earlier notice is revoked in relation to the petitioner.\n(3) The following copies of the petition shall also be delivered to the court with the petition—\n(a) one for service on the debtor, ...\n(b) one to be exhibited to the affidavit verifying that service , and\n(c) if there is in force for the debtor a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Act, and the petitioner is not the supervisor of the arrangement, one copy for him.\nEach of these copies shall have applied to it the seal of the court, and shall be issued to the petitioner.\n(4) The date and time of filing the petition shall be endorsed on the petition and on any copy issued under paragraph (3).\n(5) The court shall fix a venue for hearing the petition, and this also shall be endorsed on the petition and on any copy so issued.\n(6) Where a petition contains a request for the appointment of a person as trustee in accordance with section 297(5) (appointment of former supervisor as trustee) the person whose appointment is sought shall, not less than 2 days before the day appointed for hearing the petition, file in court a report including particulars of—\n(a) a date on which he gave written notification to creditors bound by the arrangement of the intention to seek his appointment as trustee, such date to be at least 10 days before the day on which the report under this paragraph is filed, and\n(b) details of any response from creditors to that notice, including any objections to his appointment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 6.10(2)-(2B) substituted for rule 6.10(2) (1.4.2004) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in 6.10(3)(a) omitted (11.1.1988 with application in accordance with rule 3(1)(2)) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1987 (S.I. 1987/1919), rule 1, Sch. para. 93(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 6.10(3)(c) and word 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. 93(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 6.10(6) 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. 93(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.10 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/6.10",
    "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."
}