Section 260

This section has effect where pursuant to section 257 the debtor's creditors decide to approve the proposed voluntary arrangement (with or without modifications). The approved arrangement— takes effect as if made by the debtor at the time the creditors decided to approve the proposal, and binds every person who in accordance with the rules— as if he were a party to the arrangement. was entitled to vote in the creditors' decision procedure by which the decision to approve the proposal was made, or would have been so entitled if he had had notice of it, If— the debtor shall at that time become liable to pay to that person the amount payable under the arrangement. when the arrangement ceases to have effect any amount payable under the arrangement to a person bound by virtue of subsection (2)(b)(ii) has not been paid, and the arrangement did not come to an end prematurely, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Any interim order in force in relation to the debtor immediately before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the report with respect to the creditors’ decision was made to the court under section 259 ceases to have effect at the end of that period. This subsection applies except to such extent as the court may direct for the purposes of any application under section 262 below. Where proceedings on a bankruptcy petition have been stayed by an interim order which ceases to have effect under subsection (4), that petition is deemed, unless the court otherwise orders, to have been dismissed.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04