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The Insolvency (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2002

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Amendment to Rule 6.224

25.  In Rule 6.224—

(a)for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) there is substituted—

(a)expenses or costs which—

(i)are properly chargeable or incurred by the official receiver or the trustee in preserving, realising or getting in any of the assets of the bankrupt or otherwise relating to the conduct of any legal proceedings which he has power to bring (whether the claim on which the proceedings are based forms part of the estate or otherwise) or defend;

(ii)relate to the employment of a shorthand writer, if appointed by an order of the court made at the instance of the official receiver in connection with an examination; or

(iii)are incurred in holding an examination under Rule 6.174 (examinee unfit) where the application was made by the official receiver;;

(b)after sub-paragraph (l) of paragraph (1) there is inserted—

(la)the costs of employing a shorthand writer in any case other than one appointed by an order of the court at the instance of the official receiver in connection with an examination;

(c)after the word “trustee” in sub-paragraph (q) of paragraph (1) there is inserted—

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(r)any other expenses properly chargeable by the trustee in carrying out his functions in the bankruptcy; and

(d)paragraphs (2) and (3) are omitted.

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