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The Energy Supply Company Administration (Scotland) Rules 2013

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Part 1 Interpretation and Application

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Construction and interpretation

    3. 3.Application

  3. Part 2 Appointment of Energy Administrator By The Court

    1. 4.Form of Application

    2. 5.Statement of proposed energy administrator

    3. 6.Service of petition

    4. 7.Expenses

    5. 8.Notice of dismissal of application for an energy supply company administration order

  4. Part 3 Process of Energy Supply Company Administration

    1. 9.Notification and advertisement of energy administrator’s appointment

    2. 10.Notice requiring statement of affairs

    3. 11.Statements of affairs and statements of concurrence

    4. 12.Limited disclosure

    5. 13.Release from duty to submit statement of affairs; extension of time

    6. 14.Expenses of statement of affairs

    7. 15.Energy administrator’s proposals

    8. 16.Limited disclosure of paragraph 49 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act statement

    9. 17.Notices to creditors

  5. Part 4 Meetings and Reports

    1. 18.Meetings generally and notice

    2. 19.The chair at meetings

    3. 20.Quorum at meeting of creditors

    4. 21.Chair of meeting as proxy holder

    5. 22.Suspension and Adjournment

    6. 23.Correspondence instead of creditors’ meetings

    7. 24.Remote attendance at meetings

    8. 25.Action where person excluded

    9. 26.Indication to excluded person

    10. 27.Complaint

    11. 28.Meeting following nomination of alternative liquidator

    12. 29.Entitlement to vote (creditors and members)

    13. 30.Hire-purchase, conditional sale and hiring agreements

    14. 31.Resolutions

    15. 32.Report of Meeting

    16. 33.Revision of the energy administrator’s proposals

    17. 34.Progress Reports

    18. 35.Disposal of secured property

  6. Part 5 Claims in Energy Administration

    1. 36.Submission of claims

    2. 37.Secured debts

    3. 38.Entitlement to vote and draw dividend

    4. 39.Adjudication of claims

    5. 40.Evidence in relation to claims

    6. 41.Criminal offences in relation to false claims or evidence

    7. 42.Amount which may be claimed generally

    8. 43.Debts depending on contingency

    9. 44.Liabilities and rights of co-obligants

    10. 45.Claims in foreign currency

  7. Part 6 Distribution of Assets

    1. 46.Order of priority in distribution

    2. 47.Expenses of the energy supply company administration

    3. 48.Pre-energy supply company administration costs

    4. 49.Assets to be distributed

    5. 50.Determination of outlays and remuneration

    6. 51.Payment of dividends

    7. 52.Unclaimed Dividends

    8. 53.New energy administrator appointed

  8. Part 7 Ending Energy Administration

    1. 54.Final progress reports

    2. 55.Application to court

    3. 56.Notification by energy administrator of court order

    4. 57.Moving from energy supply company administration to creditors’ voluntary liquidation

    5. 58.Moving from energy supply company administration to dissolution

    6. 59.Provision of information to the Secretary of State

  9. Part 8 Replacing an Energy Administrator

    1. 60.Grounds for resignation

    2. 61.Notice of intention to resign

    3. 62.Notice of resignation

    4. 63.Application to court to remove energy administrator from office

    5. 64.Incapacity to act, through death or otherwise

    6. 65.Application to replace

    7. 66.Notification and advertisement of appointment of replacement energy administrator

    8. 67.Joint or concurrent appointments

    9. 68.Hand-over of assets to successor energy administrator

  10. Part 9 Prescribed Part

    1. 69.Application under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act to disapply section 176A of the 1986 Act

    2. 70.Notice of order under section 176A(5) of the 1986 Act

  11. Part 10 Proxies and Company Representation

    1. 71.Definition of “proxy”

    2. 72.Form of proxy

    3. 73.Use of proxy at meeting

    4. 74.Retention of proxies

    5. 75.Right of inspection

    6. 76.Proxy-holder with financial interest

    7. 77.Representation of corporations

  12. Part 11 Giving of Notice

    1. 78.Application

    2. 79.Personal delivery of documents

    3. 80.Sending by post

    4. 81.Notice by and to representatives

    5. 82.Notice to joint energy administrators

    6. 83.The form of notices and other documents

    7. 84.Certificate of giving notice etc

    8. 85.Electronic delivery in energy administration proceedings – general

    9. 86.Use of websites by energy administrator

    10. 87.Special provision on account of expense as to website use

  13. Part 12 General Provisions

    1. 88.Validity of proceedings

    2. 89.Evidence of proceedings at meetings

    3. 90.Right to list of creditors and copy documents

    4. 91.Confidentiality of documents

    5. 92.Energy administrator’s caution

    6. 93.Punishment of offences

    7. 94.Forms for use in energy administration proceedings

    8. 95.Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms to the Secretary of State, energy administrators and of copies to the registrar of companies

    9. 96.Electronic submission of information instead of submission of forms in all other cases

    10. 97.Contents of notices to be published in the Edinburgh Gazette under the 1986 Act or these Rules

    11. 98.Notices otherwise advertised under the 1986 Act or these Rules

    12. 99.Notices otherwise advertised – other additional provisions

    13. 100.Omission of unobtainable information

    14. 101.Fees, expenses, etc.

    15. 102.Power of court to cure defects in procedure

    16. 103.Sederunt book

    17. 104.Disposal of energy supply company’s books, papers and other records

    18. 105.Information about time spent on a case

  14. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

      Forms

  16. Explanatory Note

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