Part XIII Insolvency Practitioners and their Qualification

Restrictions on unqualified persons acting as liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, etc.

389 Acting without qualification an offence.

(1)

A person who acts as an insolvency practitioner in relation to a company or an individual at a time when he is not qualified to do so is liable to imprisonment or a fine, or to both.

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(2)

This section does not apply to the official receiver F2or the Accountant in Bankruptcy (within the meaning of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act F32016)..