Insolvency Act 1986

Information and recordsE+W

24E+WProvision requiring registrars and other officers of courts having jurisdiction for the purposes of Parts VIII to XI—

(a)to keep books and other records with respect to the exercise of that jurisdiction F1..., and

(b)to make returns to the Secretary of State of the business of those courts.

[F224AE+WProvision requiring adjudicators—

(a)to keep files and other records relating to bankruptcy applications and bankruptcies resulting from bankruptcy applications,

(b)to make files and records available for inspection by persons of a prescribed description, and

(c)to provide files and records, or copies of them, to persons of a prescribed description.

24BE+WProvision requiring an adjudicator to make returns to the Secretary of State of the adjudicator's business under Part 9 of this Act.

24CE+WProvision requiring official receivers—

(a)to keep files and other records relating to bankruptcy applications and bankruptcies resulting from bankruptcy applications, and

(b)to make files and records available for inspection by persons of a prescribed description.

24DE+WProvision requiring a person to whom notice is given under section 293(2), 295(3), 298(7) or (8) or section 299(1)(a) or (3)(a)—

(a)to keep files and other records of notices given under the section in question, and

(b)to make files and records available for inspection by persons of a prescribed description.]

25E+WProvision requiring a creditor or a committee established under section 301 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.

26E+WProvision as to the manner in which public examinations under section 290 and proceedings under sections 366 to 368 are to be conducted, as to the circumstances in which records of such examinations and proceedings are to be made available to prescribed persons and as to the costs of such examinations and proceedings.

27E+WProvision imposing requirements with respect to—

(a)the preparation and keeping by the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate, or the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part VIII, of prescribed books, accounts and other records;

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

(c)the auditing of accounts kept by the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate or the supervisor of such a voluntary arrangement.

28E+WProvision requiring the person who is the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part VIII, when it appears to him that the voluntary arrangement has been fully implemented and that nothing remains to be done by him under it—

(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 it.

29E+WProvision as to the manner in which the trustee of a bankrupt’s estate is to act in relation to the books, papers and other records of the bankrupt, including provision authorising their disposal.

Bankruptcy restrictions orders and undertakingsE+W

[F329AProvision about bankruptcy restrictions orders, interim orders and undertakings, including—

(a)provision about evidence;

(b)provision enabling the amalgamation of the register mentioned in paragraph 12 of Schedule 4A with another register;

(c)provision enabling inspection of that register by the public.]