Commentary on Sections Postal administration orders Section 73: Conduct of administration, transfer schemes etc
318.This section introduces Schedule 10 which contains provisions applying the provisions of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986, and certain other enactments, to postal administration orders and Schedule 11 which contains provisions for transfer schemes to achieve the objective of a postal administration. A version of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency 1986 Act as modified to apply to postal administration is available on the BIS website(3).
319.Subsection (3) applies the power to make rules under section 411 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to Part 4 of the Act so that detailed procedural rules for a postal administration can be made in the same way that they are for a normal administration.
320.However, under subsection (4) the duty to consult the Insolvency Rules Committee about the rules is disapplied in the case of a postal administration.