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This page provides a full list of published guidance about the following processes administered or regulated by the Insolvency Service:
This document contains guidance on the main statutory consequences flowing from a bankruptcy restrictions order or undertaking.
Actions to take in the initial stages of a bankruptcy including letters to be sent and enquiries to be undertaken
The 2021 IVA Protocol should not be used after 30 June 2025 . These documents are for reference only.
Detailed information about the restrictions on the re-use of company names, when a director can re-use a company name after insolvent liquidation, how to apply for permission to use a prohibited name and how to complain.
This guidance deals with the circumstances in which the Registrar of Companies may dissolve a company
This document contains information related to the effect of a disqualification order.
Information about director's loans.
Directors have specific duties if their company becomes insolvent. These still apply if it is trading or if trading has stopped.
Powers, duties and functions of the Official Receiver including situations where those powers are limited by law or by internal operational rules
Distribution by means of a dividend or division of property
If the official receiver feels that someone who is bankrupt has been dishonest, the court can make a bankruptcy restrictions order.
This guide refers to investigations by the Insolvency Service into companies that have entered into formal insolvency proceedings – which means administration, administrative receivership, voluntary and compulsory liquidatio…
A company that enters formal insolvency will in many cases have outstanding debts.
What is a financial statement and why should directors maintain them?
Information on the Taking Control of Goods Act and other remedies available to creditors.
Guidance on appointing an insolvency practitioner and handing over the estate. Including the use of the official receivers' rotas and vacancies in office.
This is purely a bankruptcy procedure. Information on procedure and the official receiver's role in applications for annulment of the order.
Guidance to help you calculate your average rate of pay so that you can apply for redundancy related payments from the Insolvency Service.
How the accounting systems in relation to insolvent estates operate and the legislative basis for the accounting for fees and expenses relating to the work of the official receiver.
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