Description

Admin History:

The Insolvency Service is an executive agency of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, which later developed into the Department of Business, Energy and Strategy. The service was formerly part of the Department for Trade and Industry. The Service’s activities include administering companies that have been liquidated compulsorily and personal bankruptcies. The service operates under a statutory framework, including the Insolvency Acts 1986 and 2000, the Company Directors Disqualifications Act 1986, the Employment Rights Act 1996 and the Companies Acts 1985 and 2006, as well as from a range of secondary legislation relating to these acts.

Part of the Insolvency Service, and its predecessors, the Official Receiver is an officer of the court, to which they are attached. The post was created as part of the Bankruptcy Act 1883 and was initially restricted to personal bankruptcy, although under the Companies (Winding Up) Act 1890 was extended to companies in compulsory liquidation.

Description:

Registers of debtors books and papers for Hull, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, York and Scraborough; insolvency cases papers and accounts and administrative papers of the official reciever