CHAPTER 4Further provisions concerning documents
Confidentiality of documents
186.—(1) Where the administrator considers, in the case of a document forming part of the records of the special administration—
(a)that it should be treated as confidential, or
(b)that it is of such a nature that its disclosure would be calculated to be injurious to the interests of the investment bank’s creditors, clients, members or contributories,
the administrator may decline to allow it to be inspected by a person who would otherwise be entitled to inspect it.
(2) The persons who may be refused the right to inspect documents under this rule by the administrator include the members of a creditors’ committee.
(3) Where under this rule the administrator refuses inspection of a document, the person who made that request may apply to the court for an order to overrule the refusal and the court may either overrule it altogether, or sustain it, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit to impose.
(4) Nothing in this rule entitles the administrator to decline to allow inspection of any claim or proxy.
Right to inspect documents, to have list of creditors and to copy documents
187.—(1) Subject to rule 186, the following persons have the right to inspect documents held by the administrator—
(a)a person who is or was an officer of the investment bank;
(b)a member of the investment bank;
(c)any person stating in writing to be a creditor of the investment bank;
(d)any person stating in writing to be a client of the investment bank;
(e)any person stating in writing to be a contributory of the investment bank;
(f)a member of the creditors’ committee;
(g)in a special administration (bank insolvency) the Bank of England or the FSCS;
(h)in a special administration (bank administration) the Bank of England and, if there are depositors, the FSCS;
(i)the FSA.
(2) A right of inspection may be exercised on a person’s behalf by anyone authorised by that person in writing.
(3) Subject to rule 186, any of the persons listed in paragraph (1) also has the right to require the administrator to furnish that creditor with a list of the investment bank’s creditors and the amounts of their respective debts.
(4) Where the administrator is requested by any of the persons listed in paragraph (1) to supply a copy of any document, the administrator is entitled to require payment of the appropriate fee in respect of the supply of that copy.
(5) Where a person has the right to inspect documents, the right includes that of taking copies of those documents, on payment of the appropriate fee.
Sederunt book
188.—(1) The administrator shall maintain a sederunt book during their term of office for the purpose of providing an accurate record of the special administration.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the above paragraph, there shall be in the sederunt book a copy of anything required to be recorded in it by provision of the Regulations or of these Rules.
(3) The administrator shall make the sederunt book available for inspection at all reasonable hours by any interested person.
(4) Any entry in the sederunt book shall be sufficient evidence of the facts in that entry, except where it is founded on by the administrator in their own interest.
(5) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), the administrator shall retain, or shall make arrangements for retention of, the sederunt book for a period of ten years from the date the special administration ends, in accordance with paragraph 79 or 84 (as applied by regulation 15) and regulation 20 or 21.
(6) Where the sederunt book is maintained in non-documentary form, it shall be capable of reproduction in legible form.
Disposal of investment bank’s books, papers and other records
189.—(1) Where an investment bank is in special administration, the administrator shall dispose of the books, papers and records of the investment bank either in accordance with—
(a)the directions of the creditors’ committee (if any); or
(b)where there is no such committee, the court,
or, if, by the date which is 12 months after the dissolution of the investment bank, no such directions have been given, the administrator may do so after that date in such a way as the administrator deems appropriate.
(2) An administrator or former administrator (“A”) shall within 14 days of a request by the Secretary of State give the Secretary of State particulars of any money in A’s hands or under A’s control representing unclaimed or undistributed assets of the investment bank or dividends or other sums due to any person as a member or former member of the investment bank.