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Article 7.23 Debts depending on contingency

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), the amount which a creditor is entitled to claim is not to include a debt in so far as its existence or amount depends on a contingency.

(2)

On an application by the creditor—

(a)

to the liquidator; or

(b)

if there is no liquidator, to the court,

the liquidator or court must put a value on the debt in so far as it is contingent.

(3)

Where under paragraph (2) a value is put on the debt—

(a)

the amount in respect of which the creditor is then entitled to claim is to be that value but no more;

(b)

where the contingent debt is an annuity, a cautioner may not then be sued for more than that value.

(4)

Any interested person may appeal to the court against a valuation under paragraph (2) by the liquidator, and the court may affirm or vary that valuation.