F1PART 7ADEBT RELIEF ORDERS

Making and effect of debt relief order

Making of debt relief orders208E

(1)

This Article applies where the official receiver makes a debt relief order on determining an application under Article 208C.

(2)

The order must be made in the prescribed form.

(3)

The order must include a list of the debts which the official receiver is satisfied were qualifying debts of the debtor at the application date, specifying the amount of the debt at that time and the creditor to whom it was then owed.

(4)

The official receiver must—

(a)

give a copy of the order to the debtor; and

(b)

make an entry for the order in the register containing the prescribed information about the order or the debtor.

(5)

The rules may make provision as to other steps to be taken by the official receiver or the debtor on the making of the order.

(6)

Those steps may include in particular notifying each creditor to whom a qualifying debt specified in the order is owed of—

(a)

the making of the order and its effect,

(b)

the grounds on which a creditor may object under Article 208K, and

(c)

any other prescribed information.

(7)

In this Part the date on which an entry relating to the making of a debt relief order is first made in the register is referred to as “the effective date”.