Article 9 Transitional and savings provisions

Where during the transitional period section 393(3A) of the Insolvency 1986 Act applies to an authorisation to act as an insolvency practitioner by virtue of paragraph 23(2) of Schedule 6 to the Act, and the insolvency practitioner has not requested or consented to a withdrawal of the authorisation, the revocation of regulation 11 of the Insolvency Practitioners Regulations 2005^f1 by article 4 of, and paragraphs 5(1) and (5) of Schedule 1 to, this Order shall have no effect.

During the transitional period the Secretary of State may request that the holder of an authorisation granted by the Secretary of State to act as an insolvency practitioner provide any information relating to any matters of the kind referred to in paragraph (1) of regulation 11 of the Insolvency Practitioners Regulations 2005 and any such request must be complied with within one month of its receipt or within such longer period as the Secretary of State may allow.