{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016/article-70.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/900",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration (Scotland) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-scotland-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/70",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act to disapply section 176A of the 1986 Act",
  "text": "An application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act (share of assets for unsecured creditors) shall include averments as to—\n(a) the fact that the application arises in the course of a company administration;\n(b) the financial position of the company;\n(c) the basis of the postal administrator’s view that the cost of making a distribution to unsecured creditors would be disproportionate to the benefits; and\n(d) whether any other insolvency practitioner is acting in relation to the company and, if so, the address of that insolvency practitioner.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 70 in force at 1.10.2016, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 176A was inserted by the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40), section 252."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/900/article/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:15.032343+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."
}