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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-1/chapter-10/article-1n54",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018",
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  "path": "part/1/chapter/10/article/1n54",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1.53",
  "heading": "Confidentiality of documents: grounds for refusing inspection",
  "text": "(1) Where an office-holder considers that a document forming part of the records of the insolvency proceedings—\n(a) should be treated as confidential; or\n(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;\nthe office-holder may decline to allow it to be inspected by a person who would otherwise be entitled to inspect it.\n(2) The persons to whom the office-holder may refuse inspection include members of a liquidation committee or a creditors' committee.\n(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.\n(4) The court's decision may be subject to such conditions (if any) as it thinks just.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/347/part/1/chapter/10/article/1n54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:16.461516+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}