{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-7.20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-7.20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/7.20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.20",
  "heading": "Orders enforcing compliance with the Rules",
  "text": "(1) The court may, on application by the competent person, make such orders as it thinks necessary for the enforcement of obligations falling on any person in accordance with—\n(a) paragraph 47 of Schedule B1 to the Act or section 47 or 131 (duty to submit statement of affairs in administration, administrative receivership or winding up),\n(b) section 143(2) (liquidator to furnish information, books, papers, etc.), or\n(c) section 235 (duty of various persons to co-operate with office-holder).\n(2) The competent person for this purpose is—\n(a) under paragraph 47 of Schedule B1 to the Act, the administrator,\n(b) under section 47, the administrative receiver,\n(c) under section 131 or 143(2), the official receiver, and\n(d) under section 235, the official receiver, the administrator, the administrative receiver, the liquidator or the provisional liquidator, as the case may be.\n(3) An order of the court under this Rule may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application for it shall be borne by the person against whom the order is made.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.20(1)(a) substituted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 7.20(2)(a) substituted (15.9.2003) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2003 (S.I. 2003/1730), rule 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 7.20 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/7.20",
    "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."
}