Section 362A: Administrator appointed by company or directors

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 · 2000 c. 8View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XXIV: Insolvency

This section applies in relation to a company or partnership of a kind described in section 362(1)(a) to (c).

An administrator of the company or partnership may not be appointed under a provision specified in subsection (2A) without the consent of the appropriate regulator.

Those provisions are—

paragraph 22 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act (including that paragraph as applied in relation to partnerships by order under section 420 of that Act);
paragraph 23 of Schedule B1 to the 1989 Order (including that paragraph as applied in relation to partnerships by order under article 364 of that Order).

"The appropriate regulator" means—

where the company or partnership is a PRA-regulated person, the PRA, and
in any other case, the FCA.

Consent under subsection (2)—

must be in writing, and
must be filed with the court along with the notice of intention to appoint under paragraph 27 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act or paragraph 28 of Schedule B1 to the 1989 Order.

In a case where no notice of intention to appoint is required—

subsection (3)(b) shall not apply, but
consent under subsection (2) must accompany the notice of appointment filed under paragraph 29 of Schedule B1 to the 1986 Act or paragraph 30 of Schedule B1 to the 1989 Order.

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