F1Persons instructing unfit directors
C18ZBApplication for order under section 8ZA
1
If it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient in the public interest that a disqualification order should be made against a person under section 8ZA, the Secretary of State may—
a
make an application to the court for such an order, or
b
in a case where an application for an order under section 6 against the main transgressor has been made by the official receiver, direct the official receiver to make such an application.
2
Except with the leave of the court, an application for a disqualification order under section 8ZA must not be made after the end of the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the company in question became insolvent (within the meaning given by section 6(2)) F2or was dissolved without becoming insolvent.
3
Subsection (4) of section 7 applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that section.
Ss. 8ZA-8ZE and cross-heading inserted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), ss. 105, 164(1); S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(c); S.I. 2015/1689, reg. 2(c) (with Sch. para. 1)