PART 14

Voluntary trust deeds for creditors

Conditions for protected status

Exclusion of a secured creditor from trust deed
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1
The conditions set out in subsection (2) apply where a secured creditor is, by virtue of an agreement such as is mentioned in paragraph (b)(ii) of the definition of “trust deed” in section 228(1) (in this Part referred to as “the trust deed definition”), excluded from a trust deed.
2
Before the debtor grants the trust deed—
a
the trustee must provide the debtor and the secured creditor with a valuation, made by a chartered surveyor or other suitably qualified person, of the dwellinghouse (or part) which is to be excluded from the estate conveyed as mentioned in paragraph (b)(i) of the trust deed definition,
b
the debtor must, in such form as may be prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, request obtaining the secured creditor's agreement not to claim under the trust deed for any of the debt in respect of which the security is held, and
c
any agreement so obtained must be set out in such form as may be prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.