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