1.53.—(1) Where an office-holder considers that a document forming part of the records of the insolvency proceedings—
(a)should be treated as confidential; or
(b)is of such a nature that its disclosure would be prejudicial to the conduct of the insolvency proceedings or might reasonably be expected to lead to violence against any person;
the office-holder may decline to allow it to be inspected by a person who would otherwise be entitled to inspect it.
(2) The persons to whom the office-holder may refuse inspection include members of a liquidation committee or a creditors’ committee.
(3) Where the office-holder refuses inspection of a document, the person wishing to inspect it may apply to the court which may reconsider the office-holder’s decision.
(4) The court’s decision may be subject to such conditions (if any) as it thinks just.