Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 3634

The Bankruptcy (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Rules 2001

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"the 1986 Rules" means the Insolvency Rules 1986[2].

Modification of the 1986 Rules
     3. The 1986 Rules apply in relation to a demand with the following modifications.

Rule 6.1
     4.  - (1) Rule 6.1 (form and content of statutory demand) is disapplied.

    (2) A demand must be dated and signed by a member of the Authority's staff authorised by it for that purpose.

    (3) A demand must specify that it is made under section 372(4)(a) of the Act.

    (4) A demand must state the amount of the debt, to whom it is owed and the consideration for it or, if there is no consideration, the way in which it arises; but if the person to whom the debt is owed holds any security in respect of the debt of which the Authority is aware - 

(a) the demand must specify the nature of the security and the value which the Authority puts upon it as at the date of the demand; and

(b) the amount of which payment is claimed by the demand must be the full amount of the debt less the amount specified as the value of the security.

    (5) A demand must state the grounds on which it is alleged that the individual appears to have no reasonable prospect of paying the debt.

Rule 6.2
     5.  - (1) Rule 6.2 (information to be given in statutory demand) is disapplied - 

    (2) The demand must include an explanation to the individual of the following matters - 

(a) the purpose of the demand and the fact that, if the individual does not comply with the demand, bankruptcy proceedings may be commenced against him;

(b) the time within which the demand must be complied with, if that consequence is to be avoided;

(c) the methods of compliance which are open to the individual; and

(d) the individual's right to apply to the court for the demand to be set aside.

    (3) The demand must specify the name and address (and telephone number, if any) of one or more persons with whom the individual may, if he wishes, enter into communication with a view to establishing to the Authority's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due or (as the case may be) that the debt will be scoured or compounded.

Rules 6.3, 6.5, 6.11 and 6.25
     6.  - (1) Rules 6.3 (requirements as to service), 6.5 (hearing of application to set aside), 6.11, (proof of service of statutory demand) and 6.25 (decision on the hearing) apply as if - 

(a) references to the debtor were references to an individual;

(b) references (other than in rule 6.5(2) and (4)(c)) to the creditor were references to the Authority; and

(c) references to the creditor in rule 6.5(2) and (4)(c) were references to the person to whom the debt is owed.

    (2) Rule 6.5(2) applies as if the reference to the creditor also included a reference to the Authority.

    (3) Rule 6.5(5) is disapplied and there is substituted the following - 

"Where the person to whom the debt is owed holds some security in respect of his debt, and rule 4(4) of the Bankruptcy (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Rules 2001 is complied with in respect of it but the court is satisfied that the security is undervalued in the demand, the Authority may be required to amend the demand accordingly (but without prejudice to its right to present a bankruptcy by reference to the original demand)."

Rule 6.4
     7. Rule 6.4 (application to set aside statutory demand) applies as if - 

(a) references to the debtor were references to an individual;

(b) the words in paragraph (2), "the creditor issuing the statutory demand is a Minister of the Crown or a Government Department, and" were omitted; and

(c) the reference to the creditor in paragraph (2)(b) was a reference to the Authority.

Rule 6.9
     8. Rule 6. 9 (court in which petition to be presented) applies as if, for paragraph (1)(a), there were substituted - 

" (a) if in any demand on which the petition is based the Authority has indicated the intention to present a bankruptcy petition to that Court,".

Irvine of Lairg,
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Dated 8th November 2001



I Concur,


Patricia Hewitt
Secretary of State Department of Trade and Industry

Dated 9th November 2001

[2] S.I. 1986/1925; the only relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1987/1919.back