Effect of application for judicial management order or filing of written notice of appointment of interim judicial manager
95.—(1)  Subject to subsection (2), in any case where a company makes an application for a judicial management order under section 91, or lodges a written notice of appointment of an interim judicial manager under section 94(5)(a), during the automatic moratorium period —
(a)no order may be made, and no resolution may be passed, for the winding up of the company;
(b)no step may be taken to enforce any security over any property of the company, or to repossess any goods under any hire‑purchase agreement, chattels leasing agreement or retention of title agreement, except with the leave of the Court and subject to such terms as the Court may impose;
(c)no other proceedings may be commenced or continued against the company, except with the leave of the Court and subject to such terms as the Court may impose; and
(d)no execution or other legal process, may be commenced or continued, and no distress may be levied, against the company or its property, except with the leave of the Court and subject to such terms as the Court may impose.
(2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to a company that makes an application for a judicial management order or lodges a written notice of appointment of an interim judicial manager under section 94(5)(a) if, within the period of 12 months immediately before the date on which that application is made or that written notice is lodged, the company —
(a)made an earlier application for a judicial management order, to which subsection (1) applied; or
(b)lodged an earlier written notice of appointment of an interim judicial manager under section 94(5)(a) to which subsection (1) applied.
(3)  Subsection (1) does not affect any of the following:
(a)the exercise of any legal right under any arrangement (including a set‑off arrangement or a netting arrangement) that may be prescribed by regulations;
(b)the commencement or continuation of any proceedings that may be prescribed by regulations.
(4)  In this section, “automatic moratorium period” means —
(a)in any case where a company makes an application for a judicial management order under section 91, the period starting on the date on which the application is made, and ending on the date on which the application is decided by the Court; or
(b)in any case where a company lodges a written notice of appointment of an interim judicial manager under section 94(5)(a), the period starting on the date of lodgment of the written notice and ending on the earliest of the following dates:
(i)the date of the appointment of a judicial manager;
(ii)the date on which the term of appointment of the interim judicial manager ends under section 94(6);
(iii)the rejection of the resolution to place the company under judicial management at a meeting of creditors convened under section 94(7).