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Article 1.53 Confidentiality of documents: grounds for refusing inspection

(1)

Where an office-holder considers that a document forming part of the records of the insolvency proceedings—

(a)

should be treated as confidential; or

(b)

is of such a nature that its disclosure would be prejudicial to the conduct of the insolvency proceedings or might reasonably be expected to lead to violence against any person;

the office-holder may decline to allow it to be inspected by a person who would otherwise be entitled to inspect it.

(2)

The persons to whom the office-holder may refuse inspection include members of a liquidation committee or a creditors' committee.

(3)

Where the office-holder refuses inspection of a document, the person wishing to inspect it may apply to the court which may reconsider the office-holder's decision.

(4)

The court's decision may be subject to such conditions (if any) as it thinks just.