Section 312: Obligation to surrender control to trustee
20. Section 312 is modified so as to read as follows—
“312.—(1) This section applies where orders are made by virtue of article 11 of the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994 and a trustee is appointed.
(2) Any person who is or has been an officer of the partnership in question, or who is an executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased officer of the partnership, shall deliver up to the trustee of the partnership, for the purposes of the exercise of the trustee’s functions under this Act, possession of any partnership property which he holds for the purposes of the partnership.
(3) Each member shall deliver up to the trustee possession of any property, books, papers or other records of which he has possession or control and of which the trustee is required to take possession.
This is without prejudice to the general duties of the members as bankrupts under section 333 in this Chapter.
(4) If any of the following is in possession of any property, books, papers or other records of which the trustee is required to take possession, namely—
(a)the official receiver,
(b)a person who has ceased to be trustee of a member’s estate,
(c)a person who has been the administrator of the partnership or supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved in relation to the partnership under Part I,
(d)a person who has been the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved in relation to a member under Part VIII,
the official receiver or, as the case may be, that person shall deliver up possession of the property, books, papers or records to the trustee.
(5) Any banker or agent of a member or of the partnership, or any other person who hold any property to the account of, or for, a member or the partnership shall pay or deliver to the trustee all property in his possession or under his control which forms part of he member’s estate or which is partnership property and which he is not by law entitled to retain as against the member, the partnership or the trustee.
(6) If any person without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any obligation imposed by this section, he is guilty of a contempt of court and liable to be punished accordingly (in addition to any other punishment to which he may be subject).”.