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Article 59 Insolvency

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Subject to article 70, an authority may authorise a contractor for the purposes of collecting non-domestic rates to present to the court—

(a)

in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor who is an individual, a petition for a bankruptcy order to be made against the debtor under section 264 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (who may present a bankruptcy petition)f1; and

(b)

in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor which is a company, a petition for an order to be made under that Act for the winding up of the company.

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f1

1986 c. 45.