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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-1/chapter-9/article-1n45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-1/chapter-9/article-1n45.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018",
  "path": "part/1/chapter/9/article/1n45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1.44",
  "heading": "Use of website by office-holder to deliver a particular document (section 246B)",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies for the purposes of sections 246B (use of websites).\n(2) An office-holder who proposes to satisfy the requirement to deliver a document to any person by making it available on a website in accordance with section 246B(1) must deliver a notice to that person which contains—\n(a) a statement that the document is available for viewing and downloading on a website;\n(b) the website's address and any password necessary to view and download the document; and\n(c) a statement that that person may request a hard copy of the document together with a telephone number, email address and postal address which may be used to make that request.\n(3) An office-holder who receives such a request must deliver a hard copy of the document to the person who made the request free of charge within 5 business days of receipt of the request.\n(4) A document to which a notice under paragraph (2) relates must—\n(a) remain available on the website for the period required by rule 1.46; and\n(b) be in a format that enables it to be downloaded within a reasonable time of an electronic request being made for it to be downloaded.\n(5) A document which is delivered to a person by means of a website in accordance with this rule, is deemed to have been delivered—\n(a) when it is first made available on the website; or\n(b) when the notice under paragraph (2) is delivered to that person, if that is later.\n(6) Section 246B(1) does not apply to a notice under paragraph (2).\n(7) In this rule “document” includes any notice or information in any other form.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 246B was inserted by S.I. 2010/18 and prospectively amended for Scotland by S.S.I. 2016/141."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/347/part/1/chapter/9/article/1n45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:16.461516+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."
}