Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1024/part/12/chapter/3/made
Timestamp: 2018-08-17 16:00:24
Document Index: 423922338

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 1', 'art 3', 'art 7', 'art 7', 'art 10', 'art 2', 'art 4', 'art 9']

CHAPTER 3Making applications to court: general
[Note: (1) a document required by the Act or these Rules must also contain the standard contents set out in Part 1 and an application to court must also contain the standard contents set out in rule 1.35;
(2) Paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 5 make provision in relation to the court’s power to extend the time for doing anything required by these Rules;
(3) the rules about the applications referred to in rule 12.6 are found in Chapter 2 of Part 3 (administration applications); Chapter 3 of Part 7 (petition for winding up order by creditor) and Chapter 4 of Part 7 (petition for winding up by contributory or office-holder) and Chapter 2 of Part 10 (creditor’s bankruptcy petitions).]
12.6. This Chapter applies to an application made to the court except—
(a)an administration application under Part 2 of the Act;
(b)a petition for a winding-up order under Part 4 of the Act; and
(c)a creditor’s petition for a bankruptcy order under Part 9 of the Act.
[Note: see rule 1.46 for electronic delivery of documents to the court.]
12.7. An application filed with the court in hard-copy form must be accompanied by one copy and a number of additional copies equal to the number of persons who are to be served with the application.
12.8. When an application is filed the court must fix a venue for it to be heard unless—
(c)the case is one to which rule 12.12 applies.
12.9.—(1) The applicant must serve a sealed copy of the application, endorsed with the venue for the hearing, on the respondent named in the application unless the court directs or these Rules provide otherwise.
(c)that such persons be notified of the application and venue in such other a way as the court specifies; or
(b)the case is urgent and the court acts under rule 12.10; or
12.10.—(1) Where the case is urgent, the court may (without prejudice to its general power to extend or abridge time limits) hear the application immediately with or without notification to, or the attendance of, other parties.
12.11. The court may at any time give such directions as it thinks just as to—
(c)the matters to be dealt with in evidence; and
(ii)any report to be made by an office-holder, and
Hearing and determination without notice
12.12.—(1) Where the Act and these Rules do not require service of a sealed copy of the application on, or notice of it to be delivered to, any person, the court may—
(b)fix a venue for the application to be heard, in which case rule 12.9 applies to the extent that it is relevant; or
12.13.—(1) The court may adjourn the hearing of an application on such terms as it thinks just.
(c)any report to be made by an office-holder.