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Insolvency Act 1986

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429Disabilities on revocation of administration order against an individual

(1)The following applies where a person fails to make any payment which he is required to make by virtue of an administration order under Part VI of the County Courts Act 1984.

(2)The court which is administering that person's estate under the order may, if it thinks fit—

(a)revoke the administration order, and

(b)make an order directing that this section and section 12 of the [1986 c. 46.] Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 shall apply to the person for such period, not exceeding 2 years, as may be specified in the order.

(3)A person to whom this section so applies shall not—

(a)either alone or jointly with another person, obtain credit to the extent of the amount prescribed for the purposes of section 360(1)(a) or more, or

(b)enter into any transaction in the course of or for the purposes of any business in which he is directly or indirectly engaged,

without disclosing to the person from whom he obtains the credit, or (as the case may be) with whom the transaction is entered into, the fact that this section applies to him.

(4)The reference in subsection (3) to a person obtaining credit includes—

(a)a case where goods are bailed or hired to him under a hire-purchase agreement or agreed to be sold to him under a conditional sale agreement, and

(b)a case where he is paid in advance (whether in money or otherwise) for the supply of goods or services.

(5)A person who contravenes this section is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment or a fine, or both.

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