Administration is an insolvency procedure that permits an insolvent company to continue to trade while protected from creditor claims by a statutory moratorium. This allows the company breathing space in which to re-organise, refinance or effect a sale of its business.

An administrator, who must be a licensed insolvency practitioner, is appointed. Directors are not automatically dismissed but the administrator takes over the control of the company's affairs.
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