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Article 172 False claim of status as creditorI1

England and Wales

(1)

Where the Rules provide for creditors or members of a protected energy company a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court’s file or in the hands of the energy administrator or other person, it is an offence for a person, with the intention of obtaining a sight of documents which he has not under the Rules any right to inspect, falsely to claim a status which would entitle him to inspect them.

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under this Rule is liable to imprisonment or a fine, or both.

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Commencement

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Rule 172 in force at 1.10.2005, see rule 1