{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-7.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-7.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/7.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.1",
  "heading": "Preliminary",
  "text": "This Chapter applies to any application made to the court under the Act or Rules except ...—\n(a) an application for an administration order under Part II,\n(b) a petition for a winding-up order under Part IV, or\n(c) a petition for a bankruptcy order under Part IX\nof the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.1 omitted (15.9.2003) by virtue of The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.1(a) inserted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.1(b) inserted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.1(c) inserted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 7.1 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/7.1",
    "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."
}