We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Guidance on dealing with the interaction between the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Insolvency Act 1986.
Collection of monies owed to an insolvent, including the process for engaging contracted agents to undertake the recovery
This guidance is intended to assist insolvency practitioners by setting out the principal duties and actions required of the monitor.
Administrative records and files
Certain company transactions that may be open to challenge if the company enters liquidation or administration.
Directors must co-operate with any Insolvency Practitioner (IP) or Official Receiver (OR) appointed as 'office-holder' during a formal insolvency event.
If your company is in difficulty, it's important to maintain good mental health.
This guidance is for undischarged bankrupts and explains your restrictions when a bankruptcy order is made against you.
The insolvency practitioner (IP) rota is used in the distribution of insolvency cases by the official receiver.
The official receiver may use debt collection agencies to collect debts and income payments agreements.
What you can do to avoid insolvency.
Company turnaround or business recovery is a specialised service.
Online bankruptcy application: Guidance for debt advisers.
Insolvency practitioner services
Legislation
Guidance on who may be called before the court for a private examination and the procedures involved.
Dealing with assets
If the official receiver decides a person with a debt relief order has been dishonest, the court can make a debt relief restrictions order.
This Policy sets out the circumstances and way in which the Insolvency Service will investigate complaints about the way a Recognised Professional Body (RPB) has dealt with a complaint about an Insolvency Practitioner.
Gazette and advertisement
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).