NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF AN INSOLVENT COMPANY REGARDING THE RE-USE OF A PROHIBITED NAME
This notice is made in accordance with the requirements of rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 and Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
1. On 30 July 2026, Blue Motor Finance Limited (company number: 02738187) whose registered address is Darenth House, 84 Main Road, Sundridge, Kent, United Kingdom, TN14 6ER (the “Company”) entered administration.
2. The following individuals, each of Darenth House, 84 Main Road, Sundridge, Kent, United Kingdom, TN14 6ER (the “Directors”), were directors of the Company on the day it entered administration (alongside other individuals):
Ali Riaz Chaudhry
Simon Barrow
Douglas Michael Grantham
Natalie Louise Mansfield
Deirdre Bernadette McManus
Stuart John Williams
3. Section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 restricts when directors of a company in insolvent liquidation may be involved in the management of a company with the same or similar name.
4. The Directors give notice that they are acting and intend to continue to act in one or more of the ways to which section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 would apply if the Company were to go into insolvent liquidation, in connection with, or for the purposes of, the carrying on of the whole or substantially the whole of the business of the Company under one or more of the following names:
“BLUE MOTOR FINANCE ”, “BMF”, “HODGE MOTOR FINANCE”, “HODGE MF LIMITED” “HODGE” “HODGE BANK”
5. The Directors would not otherwise be permitted to act in all or any of the ways specified in section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 in connection with, or for the purposes of, carrying on the whole or substantially the whole of the business of the Company under the prohibited names without leave of the court or the application of an exception created by the Insolvency Rules (England and Wales) 2016 made under the Insolvency Act 1986.
6. A breach of the prohibition created by section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is a criminal offence.
7. Section 216(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 lists the activities that a director of a company that has gone into insolvent liquidation may not undertake unless the court gives permission or there is an exception in the Insolvency Rules (England and Wales) 2016 made under the Insolvency Act 1986. (This includes the exceptions in Part 22 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016.) These activities are –
(a) acting as a director of another company that is known by a name which is either the same as a name used by the company in insolvent liquidation in the 12 months before it entered liquidation or is so similar as to suggest an association with that company;
(b) directly or indirectly being concerned or taking part in the promotion, formation or management of any such company; or
(c) directly or indirectly being concerned in the carrying on of a business otherwise than through a company under a name of the kind mentioned in (a) above.
8. This notice is given under rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 where the business of a company which is in, or may go into, insolvent liquidation is, or is to be, carried on otherwise than by the company in liquidation with the involvement of a director of that company and under the same or a similar name to that of that company.
9. The purpose of the giving of this notice is to permit the director to act in these circumstances where the company enters (or has entered) insolvent liquidation without the director committing a criminal offence and in the case of the carrying on of the business through another company, being personally liable for that company’s debts.
10. Notice may be given where the person giving the notice is already the director of a company which proposes to adopt a prohibited name.
Recorded in The Gazette, issue 65146, 7 August 2026