{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.6",
  "heading": "Preliminary",
  "text": "[FORM 6.7] or [FORM 6.8] or [FORM 6.9] or [FORM 6.10] The Rules in this Chapter relate to a creditor's petition, and the making of a bankruptcy order thereon; and in those Rules “the debt” means ,except where the context otherwise requires, the debt (or debts) in respect of which the petition is presented.\nThose Rules also apply to a petition under section 264(1)(c) (supervisor of, or person bound by, voluntary arrangement), with any necessary modifications.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.6 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/6.6",
    "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."
}