{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.158.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.158",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.158",
  "heading": "Termination of membership",
  "text": "(1) A person's membership of the creditors' committee is automatically terminated if—\n(a) he becomes bankrupt ..., or\n(b) at 3 consecutive meetings of the committee he is neither present nor represented (unless at the third of those meetings it is resolved that this Rule is not to apply in his case), or\n(c) he ceases to be, or is found never to have been, a creditor.\n(2) However, if the cause of termination is the member's bankruptcy, his trustee in bankruptcy replaces him as a member of the committee.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.158(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2004) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.158 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/6.158",
    "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."
}