Commentary on Sections General provisions Section 249: Special administration regimes
706.This section applies to companies for which special arrangements for the administration procedure have been made by applying Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986, with modifications. These special administration schemes are:
	water companies under the Water Industry Act 1991;
	companies to which railway administration orders apply (railway companies under the Railways Act 1993 and companies involved in the Channel Tunnel Rail Link);
	air traffic control companies under the Transport Act 2000;
	London Underground PPP companies under the Greater London Authority Act 1999; and
	building societies as defined by the Building Societies Act 1986.
707.The section provides an automatic saving provision for Part II as it is presently applied and modified by the various enactments listed above to continue to apply to companies subject to these regimes.
708.It also allows the Secretary of State (or HM Treasury in the case of building societies), by order, to amend the existing provisions in Part II (and to make consequential amendments of other enactments) as they are applied to the special regimes.