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Rule 12.20 False claim of status as creditor, etc.

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

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.

(2)

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

[E.R.12.18]