All existing Technical Manual chapters are available from this contents list. Those chapters marked unavailable have not yet been written.

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Updated: 26 April 2012   

• Ch 1: The Official Receiver (June 2000)
• Ch 2: Provisional Liquidators (March 2011)  
• Ch 2A: Interim Receivers (March 2011) 
• Ch 3: Initial Procedure when winding-up order made (December 2011)
• Ch 4: Initial Procedure when bankruptcy order made (January 2012)
• Ch 5: Publication of Insolvency Information (April 2009)
• Ch 6: Appeals, stays and rescissions (June 2008)
• Ch 6A: Annulment (July 2008) 
• Ch 7: Transfer of proceedings (October 2007)
• Ch 8: Inspections (December 2008)
• Ch 9: Action against property of the Insolvent (December 2002)
• Ch 10: Custody, storage, preservation and destruction of records (July 2006)
• Ch 11: Interviews and Statements (December 2006)
• Ch 12: Statement of affairs (Ocotber 2007)
• Ch 13: Co-operation, non co-operation and enforcement of duty to co-operate (April 2004)
• Ch 14: Public Examinations (April 2000)
• Ch 15: Aims and conduct of OR's investigations (February 2006)
• Ch 16: Meetings (August 2008)
• Ch 17: Appointment of Liquidators and Trustees (September 2006)
• Ch 18: Reports to Creditors and Contributories (March 2005)
• Ch 19: Court practice and procedure (March 2001)
• Ch 20: Official Receiver's role in voluntary arrangements (April 2004)
• Ch 21: Second or subsequent bankruptcies (April 2004)
• Ch 22: Discharge (April 2004)
• Ch 23: Private Examinations (March 2011)
• Ch 24: Receiver and Manager (October 2010)
• Ch 25: Restrictions on Bankrupts (January 2008)
• Ch 26: Unavailable
• Ch 27: Unavailable
• Ch 28: Unavailable
• Ch 29: Sanction (March 2011)
• Ch 30: Exempt property and property not comprised in bankrupt's estate (March 2009)
• Ch 31: Realisation of assets
  • 31.0: Protection and Collection of Asset (September 2011)
  • 31.1: Book debts (revised July 2005)
  • 31.2: Motor Vehicles (December 2011)
  • 31.3: Dealing with freehold & leasehold properties (September 2008)
  • 31.4A: Antecedent Recoveries - Preferences and Transactions at an Undervalue (February 2010)
  • 31.4B: Antecedent Recoveries - Other Antecedent Recoveries (February 2010)
  • 31.5: Monetary Assets (July 2005)
  • 31.6: Stock, Work in Progress and Plant Machinery (March 2012)
  • 31.7: Income Payments Agreements and Income Payments Orders (December 2010)
  • 31.8: Realisation of After-Acquired property (March 2009)
  • 31.9: Rights of Action (November 2010)
  • 31.10: Sundry Assets (August 2007)
  • 31.11: Solely Owned Tenanted Property (March 2010)
  • 31.12: Jointly Owned Tenanted Property (July 2010)
• Ch 32: Employment of Agents (March 2000)
• Ch 33: Bankrupt's interest in the family home (May 2008)
• Ch 34: Disclaimer (September 2008)
• Ch 35: Criminal Bankruptcy Orders (October 1998) 
• Ch 36: Estate Accounting (May 2009 - Amended February 2012)
• Ch 36A: Distributions (May 2010)
• Ch 37: Release of Official Receiver as Liquidator or Trustee (January 2003)
• Ch 38: Dissolved Companies (March 2010)
• Ch 39: Detailed Assessment (November 2001)
• Ch 40: Creditors and Liabilities (February 2006)
• Ch 41: Cross-Border Insolvency – European Union (September 2008)
• Ch 42: Cross Border Insolvency - Within the UK and Outside the European Union (September 2008) 
• Ch 43.0: Dealing with the Affairs of a Foreign National Bankrupt (February 2010)
• Ch 43.1: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Germany (February 2010)
• Ch 43.2: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Spain (February 2011) 
• Ch 43.3: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in the United States of America (January 2011)
• Ch 43.4: Dealing with a bankrupt’s affairs in France (February 2012)
• Ch 43.5: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Belgium (March 2011) 
• Ch 43.6: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Cyprus (February 2011) 
• Ch 43.7: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Bulgaria (March 2011) 
• Ch 43.8: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Ireland (March 2011) 
• Ch 43.9: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Italy (February 2011)
• Ch 43.10: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Northern Ireland (March 2011)
• Ch 43.11: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Portugal (February 2011)
• Ch 43.12: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Scotland (March 2011)
• Ch 43.13: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in South Africa (March 2011)
• Ch 43.14: Dealing with a bankrupt’s affairs in Turkey 
• Ch 44: Unavailable
• Ch 45: Proceedings up to Order (September 1997)
• Ch 46: Debt Relief Orders (March 2010)
• Ch 47: Disclosure of information (including inspection and production of records) (September 2007)
• Ch 48: Vacation of Office and release of Liquidators and Trustees (other than the Official Receiver) (September 1997)
• Ch 49: Insurance (May 2007)
• Ch 50: Dealing with the Land Registry (October 2003)
• Ch 51: Subordinate legislation (March 1998)
• Ch 52: Contents moved to Chapter 42
• Ch 53: Partnerships (December 2011)
• Ch 53A: Limited Liability Partnerships (May 2008)
• Ch 54: Deceased Insolvents (April 2005)
• Ch 55: Insolvency Practitioners (January 2012)
• Ch 56: Alternative Corporate Procedures (September 2003)
• Ch 57: Alternative Individual procedures (July 1997)
• Ch 58: Unregistered Companies (November 1995)
• Ch 59: Unusual Businesses and Related assets (December 2007)
• Ch 60: The Legal Services Commission and the provision of publicly funded legal help and assistance (May 2006)
• Ch 61: Pension Schemes (July 2006)
• Ch 62: Carrying on a business (November 1997)
• Ch 63: Retention of Title (September 1994)
• Ch 64: Legal Professional Privilege (June 1998)
• Ch 65: Contents moved to Chapter 29
• Ch 66: Computerised Accounting records (March 2011)
• Ch 67: Unavailable
• Ch 68: Unavailable
• Ch 69: Law of Property Act Receivers (March 2001)
• Ch 70: Unavailable
• Ch 71: Unavailable
• Ch 72: Unavailable
• Ch 73: Unavailable
• Ch 74: Unavailable
• Ch 75: Companies and the Companies Act 2006 (June 2011) 
• Ch 76: Employment Law (May 1998)
• Ch 77: Direct Taxation (September 2006)
• Ch 78: Value Added Tax (July 2007)
• Ch 79: Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930 (September 1995)
• Ch 80: Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (March 2003)
• Ch 81: Freedom of Information and Environmental Information (December 2010)
• Ch 81A: Data Protection (December 2010)
• Ch 82: Environmental Legislation (November 1997)
• Ch 83: Human Rights Act 1998 (September 2000)