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The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2009

S.I. 2009/382 · Made 23 February 2009

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Debt Management And Relief, England And Wales

Debt Relief Orders

Made 23rd February 2009

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 148(2) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2007 c.15.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Citation and commencement
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2009.

2Citation and commencement

Section 108 of, and Schedules 17, 18, 19 and 20 (consequential amendments) to, the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 come into force—

(a)

for the purpose of making rules, regulations and orders, on the day after the day on which this Order is made, and

(b)

for all other purposes, on 6th April 2009.

Signature

Pat McFadden

Minister of State for Employment and Postal Affairs

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

23rd February 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the seventh commencement order under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (“the Act”) and brings into force the provisions of the Act relating to debt relief orders and debt relief restriction orders and undertakings.

Section 108 of the Act gives effect to—

  • Schedule 17 of the Act which inserts new Part 7A on debt relief orders into the Insolvency Act 1986 (“the 1986 Act”);

  • Schedule 18 which inserts new Schedule 4ZA into the 1986 Act, specifying the conditions which must be met for the making of a debt relief order;

  • Schedule 19 which inserts new Schedule 4ZB into the 1986 Act providing for debt relief restriction orders and undertakings; and

  • Schedule 20, Part 1 of which makes amendments to the 1986 Act, and Part 2 of which makes amendments to enactments other than the 1986 Act, consequential upon the introduction of debt relief orders and debt relief restriction orders and undertakings.

All those provisions are brought into force on the day after the day on which the Order is made for the purpose only of making rules, regulations and orders under the 1986 Act as amended. For all other purposes, they are brought into force on 6th April 2009.