{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-6.99.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/6.99",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.99",
  "heading": "Claim established by affidavit",
  "text": "(1) [FORM 6.39]The trustee or the official receiver, acting as receiver and manager may, if he thinks it necessary, require a claim of debt to be verified by affidavit, for which purpose there shall be used the form known as “affidavit of debt”.\n(2) An affidavit may be required notwithstanding that a proof of debt has already been lodged.\n(3) The affidavit may be sworn before an official receiver or a deputy official receiver, or before an officer of the Department or of the court duly authorised in that behalf.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.99(1) inserted (1.4.2004) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/584), rules 1(2), 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.99 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/6.99",
    "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."
}