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300 Vacancy in office as trustee.E+W
(1)This section applies where the appointment of any person as trustee of a bankrupt’s estate fails to take effect or, such an appointment having taken effect, there is otherwise a vacancy in the office of trustee.
(2)The official receiver shall be trustee until the vacancy is filled.
(3)The official receiver may summon a general meeting of the bankrupt’s creditors for the purpose of filling the vacancy and shall summon such a meeting if required to do so in pursuance of section 314(7) (creditor’s requisition).
(4)If at the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the vacancy first came to the offical receiver’s attention he has not summoned, and is not proposing to summon, a general meeting of creditors for the purpose of filling the vacancy, he shall refer the need for an appointment to the Secretary of State.
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(6)On a reference to the Secretary of State under subsection (4) . . . the Secretary of State shall either make an appointment or decline to make one.
(7)If on a reference under subsection (4) . . . no appointment is made, the official receiver shall continue to be trustee of the bankrupt’s estate, but without prejudice to his power to make a further reference.
(8)References in this section to a vacancy include a case where it is necessary, in relation to any property which is or may be comprised in a bankrupt’s estate, to revive the trusteeship of that estate after the holding of a final meeting summoned under section 331 or the giving by the official receiver of notice under section 299(2).
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