Insolvency Act 1986

Section 412.

SCHEDULE 9 E+W+S Provisions Capable of Inclusion in Individual Insolvency Rules

Courts E+W+S

1 Provision with respect to the arrangement and disposition of the business under Parts VIII to XI of this Act of courts having jurisdiction for the purpose of those Parts, including provision for the allocation of proceedings under those Parts to particular courts and for the transfer of such proceedings from one court to another.

2 E+W+S Provision for enabling a registrar in bankruptcy of the High Court or a registrar of a county court having jurisdiction for the purposes of those Parts to exercise such of the jurisdiction conferred for those purposes on the High Court or, as the case may be, that county court as may be prescribed.

3 E+W+S Provision for regulating the practice and procedure of any court exercising jurisdiction for the purposes of those Parts, being any provision that could be made by rules of court.

4 E+W+S Provision conferring rights of audience, in courts exercising jurisdiction for the purposes of those Parts, on the official receiver and on solicitors.

Notices, etc. E+W+S

5 Provision requiring notice of any proceedings under Parts VIII to XI of this Act or of any matter relating to or arising out of a proposal under Part VIII or a bankruptcy to be given or published in the prescribed manner.

6 Provision with respect to the form, manner of serving, contents and proof of any petition, application, order, notice, statement or other document required to be presented, made, given, published or prepared under any enactment contained in Parts VIII to XI or subordinate legislation under those Parts or Part XV (including provision requiring prescribed matters to be verified by affidavit).

7 E+W+S Provision specifying the persons to whom any notice under Parts VIII to XI is to be given.

Valid from 24/02/2009

[F1 Debt relief orders E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 9 paras. 7A-7E and cross-headings inserted (24.2.2009 for certain purposes otherwise 6.4.2009) by Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15), ss. 108(3), 148(5), Sch. 20 para. 14(5); S.I. 2009/382, art. 2

7A E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which the official receiver is to carry out his functions under Part 7A.

7B E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which any requirement that may be imposed by the official receiver on a person under Part 7A is to take effect.

7C E+W+S Provision modifying the application of Part 7A in relation to an individual who has died at a time when a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies in relation to him.

Valid from 24/02/2009

Debt relief restrictions orders and undertakings E+W+S

7D E+W+S Provision about debt relief restrictions orders, interim orders and undertakings, including provision about evidence.

Valid from 24/02/2009

Register of debt relief orders and debt relief restrictions orders etc E+W+S

7E E+W+S Provision about the register required to be maintained by section 251W and the information to be contained in it, including provision—

(a) enabling the amalgamation of the register with another register;

(b) enabling inspection of the register by the public.]

Registration of voluntary arrangements E+W+S

8 E+W+S Provision for the registration of voluntary arrangements approved under Part VIII of this Act, including provision for the keeping and inspection of a register.

Valid from 01/04/2004

Official receiver acting on voluntary arrangement E+W

[F2 8A Provision about the official receiver acting as nominee or supervisor in relation to a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of this Act, including—

(a) provision requiring the official receiver to act in specified circumstances;

(b) provision about remuneration;

(c) provision prescribing terms or conditions to be treated as forming part of a voluntary arrangement in relation to which the official receiver acts as nominee or supervisor;

(d) provision enabling those terms or conditions to be varied or excluded, in specified circumstances or subject to specified conditions, by express provision in an arrangement.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 9 para. 8A inserted (1.4.2004) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 269, 279, Sch. 23 para. 16(2) (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))

Interim receiver E+W+S

9 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which an interim receiver appointed under section 286 is to carry out his functions, including any such provision as is specified in relation to the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate in paragraph 21 or 27 below.

Receiver or manager E+W+S

10 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which the official receiver is to carry out his functions as receiver or manager of a bankrupt’s estate under section 287, including any such provision as is specified in relation to the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate in paragraph 21 or 27 below.

Administration of individual insolvency E+W+S

11 E+W+S Provision with respect to the certification of the appointment of any person as trustee of a bankrupt’s estate and as to the proof of that appointment.

12 E+W+S The following provision with respect to meetings of creditors—

(a) provision as to the manner of summoning a meeting (including provision as to how any power to require a meeting is to be exercised, provision as to the manner of determining the value of any debt for the purposes of any such power and provision making the exercise of any such power subject to the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover the expenses likely to be incurred in summoning and holding a meeting);

(b) provision specifying the time and place at which a meeting may be held and the period of notice required for a meeting;

(c) provision as to the procedure to be followed at such a meeting (including the manner in which decisions may be reached by a meeting and the manner in which the value of any vote at a meeting is to be determined);

(d) provision for requiring a bankrupt or debtor to attend a meeting;

(e) provision creating, in the prescribed circumstances, a presumption that a meeting has been duly summoned and held; and

(f) provision as to the manner of proving the decisions of a meeting.

13 E+W+S Provision as to the functions, membership and proceedings of a creditors’ committee established under section 301.

14 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which any requirement that may be imposed on a person under Parts VIII to XI of this Act by the official receiver, the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate or a special manager appointed under section 370 is to be so imposed and, in the case of any requirement imposed under section 305(3) (information etc. to be given by the trustee to the official receiver), provision conferring power on the court to make orders for the purpose of securing compliance with that requirement.

15 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which any requirement imposed by virtue of section 310(3) (compliance with income payments order) is to take effect.

16 E+W+S Provision as to the terms and conditions that may be included in a charge under section 313 (dwelling house forming part of bankrupt’s estate).

17 E+W+S Provision as to the debts that may be proved in any bankruptcy, as to the manner and conditions of proving a debt and as to the manner and expenses of establishing the value of any debt or security.

18 E+W+S Provision with respect to the manner of the distribution of a bankrupt’s estate, including provision with respect to unclaimed funds and dividends.

19 E+W+S Provision modifying the application of Parts VIII to XI of this Act in relation to a debtor or bankrupt who has died.

Financial provisions E+W+S

20 E+W+S Provision as to the amount, or manner of determining the amount, payable to an interim receiver, the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate or a special manager appointed under section 370 by way of remuneration for the performance of functions in connection with or arising out of the bankruptcy of any person.

21 Provision with respect to the manner in which moneys received by the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate in the course of carrying out his functions as such are to be handled.

Valid from 18/12/2003

[F3 21A E+W+S Provision enabling the Secretary of State to set the rate of interest paid on sums which have been paid into the Insolvency Services Account.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 9 para. 21A inserted (18.12.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 271(2), 279 (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/3340, art. 3

22 E+W+S Provision as to the fees, costs, charges and other expenses that may be treated as the expenses of a bankruptcy.

23 E+W+S Provision as to the fees, costs, charges and other expenses that may be incurred for any of the purposes of Part VIII of this Act or in the administration of any voluntary arrangement approved under that Part.

Information and records E+W+S

24 E+W+S Provision requiring registrars and other officers of courts having jurisdiction for the purposes of Parts VIII to XI—

(a) to keep books and other records with respect to the exercise of that jurisdiction and of jurisidction under the M1 Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914, and

(b) to make returns to the Secretary of State of the business of those courts.

Marginal Citations

M1 1914 c. 47.

25 E+W+S Provision requiring a creditor or a committee established under section 301 to be supplied (on payment in prescribed cases of the prescribed fee) with such information and with copies of such documents as may be prescribed.

26 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which public examinations under section 290 and proceedings under sections 366 to 368 are to be conducted, as to the circumstances in which records of such examinations and proceedings are to be made available to prescribed persons and as to the costs of such examinations and proceedings.

27 E+W+S Provision imposing requirements with respect to—

(a) the preparation and keeping by the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate, or the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part VIII, of prescribed books, accounts and other records;

(b) the production of those books, accounts and records for inspection by prescribed persons; and

(c) the auditing of accounts kept by the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate or the supervisor of such a voluntary arrangement.

28 E+W+S Provision requiring the person who is the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part VIII, when it appears to him that the voluntary arrangement has been fully implemented and that nothing remains to be done by him under it—

(a) to give notice of that fact to persons bound by the voluntary arrangement, and

(b) to report to those persons on the carrying out of the functions conferred on the supervisor of it.

29 E+W+S Provision as to the manner in which the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate is to act in relation to the books, papers and other records of the bankrupt, including provision authorising their disposal.

Valid from 15/09/2003

Bankruptcy restrictions orders and undertakings E+W

[F4 29A Provision about bankruptcy restrictions orders, interim orders and undertakings, including—

(a) provision about evidence;

(b) provision enabling the amalgamation of the register mentioned in paragraph 12 of Schedule 4A with another register;

(c) provision enabling inspection of that register by the public.]

Textual Amendments

F4 Sch. 9 para. 29A inserted (1.4.2004) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 269, 279, Sch. 23 para. 16(3) (with s. 249(6)); S.I. 2003/2093, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-8 (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332, art. 2))

General E+W+S

30 E+W+S Provision conferring power on the Secretary of State to make regulations with respect to so much of any matter that may be provided for in the rules as relates to the carrying out of the functions of an interim receiver appointed under section 286, of the official receiver while acting as a receiver or manager under section 287 or of a trustee of a bankrupt’s estate.

31 E+W+S Provision conferring a discretion on the court.

32 E+W+S Provision making non-compliance with any of the rule a criminal offence.

33 E+W+S Provision making different provision for different cases including different provision for different areas.