Explanatory note

This Order makes provision to enable an official receiver to authorise another person or that other person’s employees to exercise the official receiver’s functions under the insolvency legislation (as defined in Article 2(1) of the Order) subject to one condition and with certain exceptions. The condition is that the official receiver’s right of audience before the court is only to be exercisable by persons who have a right of audience under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990. The Schedule to the Order lists functions which the official receiver cannot authorise another person or another person’s employees to exercise.