45.An interim trustee, other than the AiB, is currently obliged to call and hold a statutory meeting of creditors within 60 days of the date of the award of sequestration. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 11 repeal section 21 and amend section 21A of the 1985 Act so that the trustee in sequestration may hold a statutory meeting at such time and place as the trustee may determine, and shall give notice to the creditors of any such meeting not later than 60 days after the date of award of the sequestration (and not the date of the sequestration which, in a creditor petition, is the date of the warrant for service on the debtor and which is currently the starting point for the time limit when the AiB is the trustee).
46.Subsections (4) and (5), combined with various amendments made by schedule 1, make alterations to the 1985 Act dealing with the process of voting for a trustee when a statutory meeting is called. Under the new process the creditors can vote to retain the trustee in sequestration who was appointed on the award being made or they can vote to replace that person with a new trustee in sequestration.