{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.47",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.47",
  "heading": "Amendment of title of proceedings",
  "text": "(1) At any time after the making of the bankruptcy order, the official receiver or the trustee may apply to the court for an order amending the full title of the proceedings.\n(2) Where such an order is made, the official receiver shall forthwith send notice of it to the Chief Land Registrar, for corresponding amendment of the register; and, if the court so directs, he shall also—\n(a) cause notice of the order to be gazetted, and\n(b) cause notice of the order to be advertised in such newspaper as the official receiver thinks appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 6.47(2) substituted (2.4.1991) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/495), rule 1, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.47 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/6.47",
    "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."
}