{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-rules-1986/rule-2.3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1915",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/2.3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.3",
  "heading": "Notice and advertisement of administration order",
  "text": "(1) If the court makes an administration order, it shall forthwith give notice of the order to the person appointed as administrator.\n(2) Under section 21(1)(a) the administrator shall forthwith after the order is made, advertise the making of the order once in the Edinburgh Gazette and once in a newspaper circulating in the area where the company has its principal place of business or in such newspaper as he thinks most appropriate for ensuring that the order comes to the notice of the company's creditors.\n(3) Under section 21(2), the administrator shall send a notice with a copy of the court's order certified by the clerk of court to the registrar of companies, and in addition shall send a copy of the order to the following persons:-Form 2.2 (Scot)\n(a) any person who has appointed an administrative receiver, or has power to do so;\n(b) an administrative receiver, if appointed;\n(c) a petitioner in a petition for the winding up of the company, if that petition is pending;\n(d) any provisional liquidator of the company, if appointed; and\n(e) the Keeper of the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications for recording in that register.\n(4) If the court dismisses the petition under section 9(4) or discharges the administration order under section 18(3) or 24(5), the petitioner or, as the case may be, the administrator shall -\n(a) forthwith send a copy of the court's order dismissing the petition or effecting the discharge to the Keeper of the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications for recording in that register; andForm 2.3 (Scot)Form 2.4 (Scot)\n(b) within 14 days after the date of making of the order, send a notice with a copy, certified by the clerk of court, of the court's order dismissing the petition or effecting the discharge to the registrar of companies.Form 2.3 (Scot)Form 2.4 (Scot)\n(5) Paragraph (4) is without prejudice to any order of the court as to the persons by and to whom. and how, notice of any order made by the court under section 9(4), 18 or 24 is to be given and to section 18(4) or 24(6) (notice by administrator of court's order discharging administration order).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied 2016 asp 21 s. 14B (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2017/210",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Regulation (EU) 2015/848) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/806",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Society Special Administration (Scotland) Rules 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/128",
      "affecting_title": "Limited Liability Partnerships (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "specified provisions applied (with modifications)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1388",
      "affecting_title": "The Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (Contractual Scheme) Regulations 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1915/rule/2.3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:39:01.712831+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."
}