The Insolvency (Scotland) (Company Voluntary Arrangements and Administration) Rules 2018

Committee members’ representatives

3.84.—(1) A member of the creditors’ committee may, in relation to the business of the creditors’ committee, be represented by another person duly authorised by the member for that purpose.

(2) A person acting as a committee member’s representative must hold a letter of authority entitling that person to act (either generally or specifically) and authenticated by or on behalf of the committee member.

(3) A proxy or an instrument conferring authority (in respect of a person authorised to represent a body corporate or a partnership) is to be treated as a letter of authority to act generally (unless the proxy or instrument conferring authority contains a statement to the contrary).

(4) The chair at a meeting of the committee may call on a person claiming to act as a committee member’s representative to produce a letter of authority, and may exclude that person if no letter of authority is produced at or by the time of the meeting or it appears to the chair that the authority is deficient.

(5) A committee member may not be represented by—

(a) another member of the committee;

(b) a person who is at the same time representing another committee member;

(c) a body corporate;

(d) a partnership;

(e) an undischarged bankrupt;

(f) a person whose estate has been sequestrated and who has not been discharged;

(g) a person who has granted a trust deed for the benefit of creditors;

(h) a person who has made a composition with creditors;

(i) a person to whom a moratorium period under a debt relief order applies;

(j) a person who is subject to a company directors disqualification order or a company directors disqualification undertaking; or

(k) a person who is subject to a bankruptcy restrictions order (including an interim order), a bankruptcy restrictions undertaking, a debt relief restrictions order (including an interim order) or a debt relief restrictions undertaking.

(6) Where a representative authenticates any document on behalf of a committee member the fact that the representative authenticates as a representative must be stated below the authentication.