Regulation 3 Specified persons to whom information may be disclosed

The following persons are specified for the purposes of section 1110F(1)(c) of the Companies Act 2006—

(a)

a person acting as an insolvency practitioner within the meaning of section 388(1)(a) of the 1986 Act^f1 (meaning of “act as insolvency practitioner”) or of Article 3(1)(a) of the 1989 Order (“act as insolvency practitioner”);

(b)

a person acting as an insolvency practitioner within the meaning of section 388(2)(a), (b) or (d) of the 1986 Act^f2 or of Article 3(2)(a) or (d) of the 1989 Order;

(c)

the official receiver as defined by section 399(1) of the 1986 Act^f3 and a person appointed in accordance with Article 355(1) of the 1989 Order (appointment, etc., of official receivers);

(d)

the Accountant in Bankruptcy as defined by section 199(1) of the 2016 Act (Accountant in Bankruptcy);

(e)

a trustee in sequestration within the meaning of the 2016 Act;

(f)

a trustee acting under a protected trust deed as defined by regulation 3 of the Protected Trust Deeds (Scotland) Regulations 2013^f4 (protected status), and

(g)

a judicial factor as defined by section 1 of the Judicial Factors Act 1849^f5 (interpretation of terms in this Act).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 388(1)(a) was amended by section 2(1) of, and paragraphs 1 and 21(2) of Schedule 3 to, the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (c. 12).
f2: Section 388(2)(a) was amended by Article 7(1) of, and paragraphs 4(1) and 6(a) of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2016/1034.
f3: Section 399(1) was amended by section 269 of, and paragraphs 1 and 14(a) of Schedule 23 to, the Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40).
f4: S.S.I. 2013/318.
f5: 1849 c. 51 (12 & 13 Vict).