The Insolvency Rules (Northern Ireland) 1991

Hand-over of estate to trustee

6.122.—(1) This Rule applies only where—

(a) the bankrupt's estate vests in the trustee under Chapter IV of Part IX of the Order, following a period in which the official receiver is the receiver and manager of the estate according to Article 260, or

(b) the trustee is appointed in succession to the official receiver acting as trustee.

(2) When the trustee's appointment takes effect, the official receiver shall forthwith do all that is required for putting him into possession of the estate.

(3) On taking possession of the estate, the trustee shall discharge any balance due to the official receiver on account of—

(a) expenses properly incurred by him and payable under the Order or the Rules, and

(b) any advances made by him in respect of the estate, together with interest on such advances at the rate applicable to a money judgment of the High Court on the date of the bankruptcy order.

(4) Alternatively, the trustee may (before taking office) give to the official receiver a written undertaking to discharge any such balance out of the first realisation of assets.

(5) The official receiver has a charge on the estate in respect of any sums due to him under paragraph (3). But, where the trustee has realised assets with a view to making those payments, the official receiver's charge does not extend in respect of sums deductible by the trustee from the proceeds of realisation, as being expenses properly incurred therein.

(6) The trustee shall from time to time out of the realisation of assets discharge all guarantees properly given by the official receiver for the benefit of the estate, and shall pay all the official receiver's expenses.

(7) The official receiver shall give to the trustee all such information, relating to the affairs of the bankrupt and the course of the bankruptcy, as he (the official receiver) considers to be reasonably required for the effective discharge by the trustee of his duties in relation to the estate.

(8) The trustee shall also be furnished with any report of the official receiver under Chapter 6.

[E.R.6.125]