{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.136",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.136.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.136",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.136",
  "heading": "Release of official receiver",
  "text": "(1) The official receiver shall, before giving notice to the Secretary of State under section 299(2) (that the administration of the estate is for practical purposes complete), send out notice of his intention to do so to all creditors of which he is aware, and to the bankrupt.\n(2) The notice shall in each case be accompanied by a summary of the official receiver's receipts and payments as trustee.\n(3) The Secretary of State, when he has under section 299(2) 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 6.136(1) substituted (1.4.2004) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.136 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/6.136",
    "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."
}