SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5N.I.PROVISIONS CAPABLE OF INCLUSION IN COMPANY INSOLVENCY RULES

Information and recordsN.I.

20.  Provision requiring officers of the High Court—N.I.

(a)to keep books and other records with respect to the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court in relation to, or to matters connected with or arising out of, the insolvency or winding up of companies, and

(b)to make returns to the Department of the business of the Court.

21.  Provision requiring a creditor, member or contributory, or such a committee as is mentioned in paragraph 10, 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.N.I.

22.  Provision as to the manner in which public examinations under Articles 113 and 114 and proceedings under Articles 200 and 201 are to be conducted, as to the circumstances in which records of such examinations or proceedings are to be made available to prescribed persons and as to the costs of such examinations and proceedings.N.I.

23.  Provision imposing requirements with respect to—N.I.

(a)the preparation and keeping by the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company, or by the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part II, of prescribed books, accounts and other records;

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

(c)the auditing of accounts kept by the liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver of a company, or the supervisor of such a voluntary arrangement; and

(d)the issue by the administrator or administrative receiver of a company of such a certificate as is mentioned in section 22(3)(b) of the Value Added Tax Act 1983F1 (refund of tax in cases of bad debts) and the supply of copies of the certificate to creditors of the company.

24.  Provision requiring the person who is the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part II, when it appears to him that the voluntary arrangement has been fully implemented and that nothing remains to be done by him under the arrangement—N.I.

(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 the arrangement.

25.  Provision as to the manner in which the liquidator of a company is to act in relation to the books, papers and other records of the company, including provision authorising their disposal.N.I.

26.  Provision imposing requirements in connection with the carrying out of functions under[F2 Article 10(4) of the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002] (including, in particular, requirements with respect to the making of periodic returns).N.I.