Rule 12.18 False claim of status as creditor, etcI1

Where the Rules provide for creditors, members of a company or contributories in a company's winding up a right to inspect any documents, whether on the court's file or in the hands of a responsible insolvency practitioner 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.

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