How does the UK standalone moratorium for company rescue work?
A company in financial difficulty obtains an initial moratorium of twenty business days, extendable by a further twenty without creditor consent and longer with consent or by the court. It is supervised by a monitor who must be an insolvency practitioner and who confirms that rescue as a going concern remains likely. During the moratorium most enforcement and insolvency proceedings are stayed, but the company must keep paying moratorium debts and certain pre-moratorium debts as they fall due.
Source
- Source
- Insolvency Act 1986, Part A1, inserted by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020
- Acts
- Insolvency Act 1986
- Area
- Company, accounts and insolvency
- Checked
- 2026-09-22
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