C8C1C2C3C12C4C5C6C14C13C7C7Part I Company Voluntary Arrangements
Pt. 1 (ss. 1-7), Pt. 2 (ss. 8-27) modified by Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (c. 46, SIF 27), ss. 21(2), 25
Pts. 1-7 (ss. 1-251) applied (with modifications) by S.I. 1989/1276, arts. 2, 3
Pt. 1 (ss. 1-7) applied with modifications by S.I. 1986/2142, arts. 1(2), 11, 13(3), 15
Pt. 1 (ss. 1-7) applied (with modifications) (1.12.1997) by 1986 c. 53, Sch. 15A (as inserted by 1997 c. 32, s. 39(2), Sch. 6 para. 1(2)(a); S.I. 1997/2668, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1(i)) (as amended (13.3.2018) by The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/208), regs. 1(3), 2(3))
Pt. 1: power to apply or incorporate conferred (6.4.2001) by 2000 c. 12, s. 14; S.I. 2000/3316, art. 2
Pt. 1: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (15.9.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 255(2)(a), 279 (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))
Pt. 1: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (20.11.2003 for specified purposes and 1.4.2004 otherwise) by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), ss. 24(2), 26, 199; S.I. 2004/759, art. 2
Pt. 1: power to apply (with modifications) conferred (E.W.) (1.3.2007) by National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41), ss. 53(2), 55, 277
Pts. 1-4, 6, 7 applied to limited liability partnerships (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (6.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1090, reg. 5, Schs. 3, 4 (as amended (4.3.2004) by S.I. 2004/355, art. 10; and (1.10.2005) by S.I. 2005/1989, reg. 3, Sch. 2 (with reg. 4); and (8.12.2017) by The Insolvency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1119), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pts. 2, 3; and (temp.) (retrospective to 27.4.2020) by virtue of Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), Sch. 10 paras. 8(1)(2), 14, Sch. 12 para. 6 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2); and (26.6.2020) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/643), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with reg. 2); and (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 6 (with ss. 2(2), 5(2), 14(4)))
First Group of Parts (Pts. 1-7) applied (with modifications) (15.12.2006) by The Banks (Former Authorised Institutions) (Insolvency) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3107), art. 3, Sch. (as amended (1.4.2013) by S.I. 2013/472, art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 117; and (13.3.2018) by S.I. 2018/208, regs. 1(3), 11)
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (17.2.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), s. 113(6)-(9) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch.
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 103, 134, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, art. 3, Sch. para. 2
Pts. 1-4 applied in part (with modifications) (E.W.) (2.1.2013) by The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/3013), reg. 1, Sch. para. 1 (as amended (26.6.2020) by Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12), s. 49(1), Sch. 3 para. 49(3) (with ss. 2(2), 5(2)); (7.7.2020) by S.I. 2020/710, regs. 1, 4 (with reg. 6) (which affecting legislation is revoked and this amendment reversed (13.8.2020) by S.I. 2020/856, regs. 1(2), 2); and (13.8.2020 immediately after the coming into force of S.I. 2020/856, reg. 2) by S.I. 2020/856, regs. 1(3), 5 (with reg. 7))
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2014) by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions (Arrangements, Reconstructions and Administration) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/229), art. 2(1), Sch. 1 (as renamed (1.8.2014) by S.I. 2014/1815, Sch. para 33; and as amended (1.8.2014) by S.I. 2014/1822, art. 5; (13.3.2018) by S.I. 2018/208, regs. 1(3), 15(3)(a); and (18.7.2020) by S.I. 2020/744, arts. 1, 11)
Pt. 1 power to apply (with or without modifications) (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 118(1)(2), 154 (with Sch. 5)
The Proposal
C111 Those who may propose an arrangement.
1
The directors of a company F1(other than one which is in administration or being wound up) may make a proposal under this Part to the company and to its creditors for a composition in satisfaction of its debts or a scheme of arrangement of its affairs (from here on referred to, in either case, as a “voluntary arrangement”).
2
A proposal under this Part is one which provides for some person (“the nominee”) to act in relation to the voluntary arrangement either as trustee or otherwise for the purpose of supervising its implementation; and the nominee must be a person who is qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner F8F2... in relation to the voluntary arrangement.
3
Such a proposal may also be made—
F3a
where the company is in administration, by the administrator,
b
where the company is being wound up, by the liquidator.
F44
In this Part “company” means—
F5a
a company registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales or Scotland;
b
a company incorporated in an EEA State F19...; or
c
a company not incorporated in an EEA State but having its centre of main interests in a member State F20(other than Denmark) or in the United Kingdom.
5
In subsection (4), in relation to a company, “centre of main interests” has the same meaning as in the F10Article 3 of the EU Regulation.
6
If a company incorporated outside the United Kingdom has a principal place of business in Northern Ireland, no proposal under this Part shall be made in relation to it unless it also has a principal place of business in England and Wales or Scotland (or both in England and Wales or Scotland).
F171A Moratorium.
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C92 Procedure where nominee is not the liquidator or administrator.
1
This section applies where the nominee under section 1 is not the liquidator or administrator of the company F18....
2
The nominee shall, within 28 days (or such longer period as the court may allow) after he is given notice of the proposal for a voluntary arrangement, submit a report to the court stating—
a
F6whether, in his opinion, the proposed voluntary arrangement has a reasonable prospect of being approved and implemented,
F11b
whether, in his opinion, the proposal should be considered by a meeting of the company and by the company's creditors, and
c
if in his opinion it should, the date on which, and time and place at which, he proposes a meeting of the company should be held.
3
For the purposes of enabling the nominee to prepare his report, the person intending to make the proposal shall submit to the nominee—
a
a document setting out the terms of the proposed voluntary arrangement, and
b
a statement of the company’s affairs containing—
i
such particulars of its creditors and of its debts and other liabilities and of its assets as may be prescribed, and
ii
such other information as may be prescribed.
F74
The court may—
a
on an application made by the person intending to make the proposal, in a case where the nominee has failed to submit the report required by this section or has died, or
b
on an application made by that person or the nominee, in a case where it is impracticable or inappropriate for the nominee to continue to act as such,
direct that the nominee be replaced as such by another person qualified to act as an insolvency practitioner F9... in relation to the voluntary arrangement.
C9C103F16Consideration of proposal.
1
Where the nominee under section 1 is not the liquidator or administrator, and it has been report to the court F12under section 2(2) that the proposal should be considered by a meeting of the company and by the company's creditors, the person making the report shall (unless the court otherwise F13directs)—
a
summon a meeting of the company to consider the proposal for the time, date and place proposed in the report, and
b
seek a decision from the company's creditors as to whether they approve the proposal.
2
Where the nominee is the liquidator or administrator, he F14shall—
a
summon a meeting of the company to consider the proposal for such time, date and place as he thinks fit, and
b
seek a decision from the company's creditors as to whether they approve the proposal.
F153
A decision of the company's creditors as to whether they approve the proposal is to be made by a qualifying decision procedure.
4
Notice of the qualifying decision procedure must be given to every creditor of the company of whose claim and address the person seeking the decision is aware.
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.12.1994) by The Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2421), arts. 4(1), 5(1), Sch. 1 (as amended (1.1.2003) by S.I. 2002/2708, arts. 4-6 (with transitional provisions in art. 11); (1.7.2005) by S.I. 2005/1516, art. 6; (1.4.2013) by S.I. 2013/472, Sch. 2 para. 11(a); (1.1.2015) by S.I. 2014/3486, arts. 1(2), 12 (with art. 3); (6.4.2017) by S.I. 2017/540, reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 4 (with reg. 4); (19.12.2018) by S.I. 2018/1244, arts. 1(2), 18(2) (with art. 3)); and (28.12.2020) (temp.) by S.I. 2020/1350, regs. 1(4), 121(2))