Explanatory Memorandum

Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010

2010 CHAPTER 16

15 December 2010

Commentary on Sections

Section 1: Debt relief orders

Part 7A to the 1989 Order

Article 208P: Concealment or falsification of documents

This Article provides that a failure to produce books, papers or other documents to the Official Receiver is an offence. Similarly, preventing such records being produced, or their concealment, destruction or falsification will also be an offence. The offence may be committed before the application for the DRO has been made, and during both the application process and the moratorium period, and it is irrelevant that the order may have been revoked subsequent to an offence being committed.