Section 379C Creditors' ability to opt out of receiving certain noticesF1

Any provision of the rules which requires an office-holder to give a notice to creditors of an individual does not apply, in circumstances prescribed by the rules, in relation to opted-out creditors.

Subsection (1)—

Except as provided by the rules, a creditor may participate and vote in a creditors' decision procedure or a deemed consent procedure even though, by virtue of being an opted-out creditor, the creditor does not receive notice of it.

In this section—

• “give” includes deliver, furnish or send;

• “notice” includes any document or information in any other form;

• “office-holder”, in relation to an individual, means—

  1. (a)

     where a bankruptcy order is made against the individual, the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy;

  2. (b)

     where an interim receiver of the individual's property is appointed, the interim receiver;

  3. (c)

     the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part 8 in relation to the individual.