{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021/article-34.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2021/257",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "article/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Reports to creditors",
  "text": "(1) The postal administrator shall prepare a report (“the progress report”) which includes—\n(a) notice that the proceedings are being dealt with in the High Court, and the relevant court reference number;\n(b) full details of the company’s name, address of registered office and registered number;\n(c) full details of the postal administrator’s name and address, date of appointment and name and address of applicant for the postal administration application, including any changes in the postal administrator, and, in the case of joint postal administrators, their functions as set out in the statement made for the purposes of section 72(5) of the 2011 Act as applied by section 87;\n(d) details of progress during the period of the report, including a receipts and payments account (as detailed in paragraph (2) of this Rule);\n(e) details of any assets that remain to be realised; and\n(f) any other relevant information for the creditors.\n(2) A receipts and payments account shall be in the form of an abstract showing receipts and payments during the period of the report and, where the postal administrator has ceased to act, shall also include a statement as to the amount paid to unsecured creditors by virtue of the application of Article 150A of the 1989 Order.\n(3) The progress report shall, except where paragraph (4) of this Rule applies, cover the period of 6 months commencing on the date on which the company entered postal administration and every subsequent period of 6 months.\n(4) The period to be covered by a progress report ends on the date when a postal administrator ceases to act, and the period to be covered by each subsequent progress report of a new postal administrator is each successive period of 6 months beginning immediately after that date (subject to the further application of this paragraph when another postal administrator ceases to act).\n(5) The postal administrator shall send a copy of the progress report within 1 month of the end of the period covered by the report, to —\n(a) the Secretary of State;\n(b) OFCOM;\n(c) the creditors, and\n(d) the registrar;\n(6) The court may, on the postal administrator’s application, extend the period of 1 month mentioned in paragraph (5) of this Rule, or make such other order in respect of the content of the report as it thinks just.\n(7) If the postal administrator makes default in complying with this Rule, the postal administrator is liable to a fine and, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/257/article/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:37:30.830898+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."
}