Valid from 15/09/2003
Valid from 01/04/2004
(1)Section 310 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (income payments order) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1) omit “, on the application of the trustee,”.
(3)After subsection (1) insert—
“(1A)An income payments order may be made only on an application instituted—
(a)by the trustee, and
(b)before the discharge of the bankrupt.”
(4)For subsection (6) substitute—
“(6)An income payments order must specify the period during which it is to have effect; and that period—
(a)may end after the discharge of the bankrupt, but
(b)may not end after the period of three years beginning with the date on which the order is made.
(6A)An income payments order may (subject to subsection (6)(b)) be varied on the application of the trustee or the bankrupt (whether before or after discharge).”
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]