{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-practitioners-regulations-1990/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/439",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Practitioners Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-practitioners-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Insolvency Practitioners Regulations 1990.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st April 1990.\n(3) In these Regulations except where the context otherwise requires:–\n“Accountant in Bankruptcy” shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985;\n“the Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“application” means an application made by an individual to the competent authority for authorisation under section 393 of the Act to act as an insolvency practitioner;\n“associate” shall be construed in accordance with section 435 of the Act;\n“authorisation” means an authorisation to act as an insolvency practitioner granted under section 393 of the Act;\n“the Bankruptcy Act” means the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985;\n“business” includes the carrying on of any trade, profession or vocation and the discharge of the functions relating to any office or employment;\n“commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;\n“Crown employment” shall be construed in accordance with section 121(2) of the Employment Protection Act 1975;\n“the insolvency legislation” means the following enactments:–\nthe Act;\nthe Insolvency Act 1985;\nParts XVIII to XXI of the Companies Act 1985;\nPart VII of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978;\nthe Bankruptcy Act 1914;\nthe Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914;\nthe Bankruptcy Act;\nthe Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913; and\nthe provisions of the enactments repealed by Schedule 1 to the Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 relating to insolvency; and\n“insolvency practice” means the carrying on of the business of acting as an insolvency practitioner or in a corresponding capacity under the law of any country or territory outside Great Britain, and for this purpose acting as an insolvency practitioner shall include acting as a trustee in sequestration or a judicial factor on the bankrupt estate of a deceased person;\n“insolvency practitioner” shall be construed in accordance with section 388 of the Act;\n“insolvency proceedings” means any of the proceedings under the Act and the Bankruptcy Act in which a person may be appointed to act as an insolvency practitioner;\n“insolvency work experience” means engagement in work related to the administra tion of the estates of persons in respect of which an office-holder has been appointed; and “higher insolvency work experience” means engagement in work related to the administration of the estates of persons in respect of which an office-holder has been appointed where the work involves the management or supervision of the conduct of a case on behalf of that office-holder;\n“interim trustee” has the same meaning as in the Bankruptcy Act;\n“office-holder” means a person who acts or has acted as an insolvency practitioner, a trustee in sequestration, or a judicial factor on the bankrupt estate of a deceased person or in a corresponding capacity under the law of any country or territory outside Great Britain;\n“permanent trustee” and “trust deed for creditors” have the same meanings as in the Bankruptcy Act;\n“relevant time” in relation to an individual making an application or his application means the time of making the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1975 c. 71."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1978 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1914 c. 59 (4 and 5 Geo. 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1914 c. 47 (4 and 5 Geo. 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1913 c. 20 (3 and 4 Geo. 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1985 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/439/regulation/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}