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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-8/chapter-6/article-8n21",
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  "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/8/chapter/6/article/8n21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8.21",
  "heading": "Chair at meetings",
  "text": "(1) The chair of a meeting must be—\n(a) the convener; or\n(b) an appointed person.\n(2) However—\n(a) where a decision on the appointment of a liquidator under rule 4.14(2)(b), 4.14(4) or 4.14(6) (information to creditors and appointment of liquidator in creditors voluntary winding up) is made by a meeting the chair of the meeting must be the convener;\n(b) where a decision on the appointment of a liquidator under rule 5.22(6) (appointment of liquidator in place of the interim liquidator under section 138(3) in court winding up) is made by a meeting and a resolution is proposed to appoint the interim liquidator to be liquidator another person may be appointed to act as chair for the purpose of choosing the liquidator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/347/part/8/chapter/6/article/8n21",
    "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."
}