Article 7.18 Evidence of claims

The liquidator, for the purpose of being satisfied as to the validity or amount of a claim submitted by a creditor under rule 7.16, may require—

If the creditor or other person refuses or delays to produce such evidence as required under paragraph (1), the liquidator may apply to the court for an order requiring the creditor or other person to attend for private examination before the court.

On an application to it under paragraph (2) the court may make an order requiring the creditor or other person to attend for private examination before it on a date (being not earlier than 8 days nor later than 16 days after the date of the order) and at a time specified in the order.

If a creditor or other person is for any good reason prevented from attending for examination, the court may grant a commission to take the examination (the commissioner being in this rule referred to as an “examining commissioner”).

At any private examination under paragraph (3) or where the court grants a commission to take the examination under paragraph (4)—

The examination, whether before the court or an examining commissioner, must be taken on oath.

A person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with an order made under paragraph (3) is guilty of an offence.

References in this rule to a creditor in a case where the creditor is one of the following entities:—

are to be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as references to a person representing the entity.