# Insolvency Act 1986, Section 379C: Creditors' ability to opt out of receiving certain notices


(1) 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.
(2) Subsection (1)—
(a) does not apply in relation to a notice of a distribution or proposed distribution to creditors;
(b) is subject to any order of the court requiring a notice to be given to all creditors (or all creditors of a particular category).
(3) 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.
(4) 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—
(a)where a bankruptcy order is made against the individual, the official receiver or the trustee in bankruptcy;
(b)where an interim receiver of the individual's property is appointed, the interim receiver;
(c)the supervisor of a voluntary arrangement approved under Part 8 in relation to the individual.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/45/section/379C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-act-1986/section-379C
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