{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.176",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.176.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.176",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.176",
  "heading": "Adjournment",
  "text": "(1) [FORM 6.59] The public examination may be adjourned by the court from time to time, either to a fixed date or generally.\n(2) Where the examination has been adjourned generally, the court may at any time on the application of the official receiver or of the bankrupt—\n(a) [FORM 6.60] fix a venue for the resumption of the examination, and\n(b) give directions as to the manner in which, and the time within which, notice of the resumed public examination is to be given to persons entitled to take part in it.\n(3) Where application under paragraph (2) is made by the bankrupt, the court may grant it on terms that the expenses of giving the notices required by that paragraph shall be paid by him and that, before a venue for the resumed public examination is fixed, he shall deposit with the official receiver such sum as the latter considers necessary to cover those expenses.\n(4) Where the examination is adjourned generally, the official receiver may, there and then, make application under section 279(3) (suspension of automatic discharge).\n(5) If, on the hearing of an application pursuant to paragraph (4), the court makes an order suspending the bankrupt’s discharge, copies of such order shall be sent by the court to the official receiver, the trustee and the bankrupt.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 6.176(5) inserted (22.3.1999) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/359), rule 1, Sch. para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.176 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/6.176",
    "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."
}