Section 379: Winding-up rules.

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

Part XXIV: Insolvency

Winding-up rules may include provision—

for determining the amount of the liabilities of an insurer to policyholders of any class or description for the purpose of proof in a winding up; and
generally for carrying into effect the provisions of this Part with respect to the winding up of insurers.

Winding-up rules may, in particular, make provision for all or any of the following matters—

the identification of assets and liabilities;
the apportionment, between assets of different classes or descriptions, of—
the costs, charges and expenses of the winding up; and
any debts of the insurer of a specified class or description;
the determination of the amount of liabilities of a specified description;
the application of assets for meeting liabilities of a specified description;
the application of assets representing any excess of a specified description.

"Specified" means specified in winding-up rules.

"Winding-up rules" means rules made under section 411 of the 1986 Act (or Article 359 of the 1989 Order).

Nothing in this section affects the power to make winding-up rules under the 1986 Act or the 1989 Order.

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