Insolvency Act 1986, Schedule 1, paragraph 2

SCHEDULE 1 Powers of Administrator or Administrative Receiver

2 Power to sell or otherwise dispose of the property of the company by public auction or private contract or, in Scotland, to sell, [F1410feu,F1410] hire out or otherwise dispose of the property of the company by public roup or private bargain.

Definitions used in Schedule 1, paragraph 2 1

the company

2 Section 233B does not apply in relation to a contract for the supply of goods or services to a company (“the company”) where any of paragraphs 3 to 11 applies.

Defined in Sch.4ZZA para.2 · see it in the full Act

Cases considering Schedule 1, paragraph 2 10

Alma Property Management Ltd v Richard George Crompton & Anor

[2023] EWCA Civ 849 · 19 July 2023

The court treated paragraph 2, together with the contractual power in clause 15(4)(i), as conferring a power to sell the freehold. That power supplied the function to which the contractual incidental or conducive power attached. (see para [45])

Twizell & Anor v Entrust & Ors

[2009] EWCA Civ 1192 · 12 November 2009

The court confirmed that paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 supplied the administrators’ requisite power of sale. (see para [26])

In the matter of Sova Capital Limited

[2023] EWHC 452 (Ch) · 2 March 2023Interprets

Paragraph 2 conferred power to sell or otherwise dispose of company property by public auction or private contract. The court held that the power extended to a transfer in return for waiver of a creditor’s claim. (see paras [216]; [248]-[260])

1 more judgment, and what each says about Schedule 1, paragraph 2, are in the case-law panel in the full Act.

Amendments and notes

1 notes from legislation.gov.uk

Amendments

  1. F1410Word in Sch. 1 para. 2 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by 2000 asp 5, ss. 71, 76(2), 77(2), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2