Part VII Financial Markets and Insolvency

Supplementary provisions

189 Meaning of “relevant office-holder”.

(1)

The following are relevant office-holders for the purposes of this Part—

(a)

the official receiver,

(b)

any person acting in relation to a company as its liquidator, provisional liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver,

(c)

any person acting in relation to an individual (or, in Scotland, any debtor within the meaning of the M1Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985) as his trustee in bankruptcy or interim receiver of his property or as permanent or interim trustee in the sequestration of his estate,

(d)

any person acting as administrator of an insolvent estate of a deceased person.

(2)

In subsection (1)(b) “company” means any company, society, association, partnership or other body which may be wound up under the M2Insolvency Act 1986.