A judge has retrospectively appointed two insolvency experts as administrators at crisis-hit Rangers to correct an earlier flaw in the process.
Paul Clark and David Whitehouse of Duff and Phelps were originally brought in as joint administrators last month following financial problems at Ibrox.
But it was later discovered that it was invalid because the directors at Rangers did not obtain Financial Services Authority consent for the appointment as required.
Rangers returned to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to have the men made interim managers ahead of proceedings to rectify the position.
After a hearing today Lord Hodge said: "I will make an administration order in respect of Rangers Football Club plc being effective from 2.45 pm on February 14 and appoint Mr Clark and Mr Whitehouse to be joint administrators of the company."
The judge said he noted that no application was made for the expenses of the petition to have the administrators appointed retrospectively.
David Sellar QC, for Rangers, said: "The interests of the creditors would not be served by the confusion of potentially invalidating the steps that have already been taken in the purported process."
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