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Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1993

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2For section 13 (appointment and resignation of interim trustee) there shall be substituted the following section.

13Resignation, removal etc. of interim trustee.

(1)Where, under section 1A(2) of this Act, the court removes from office an interim trustee, the court shall, on the application of the Accountant in Bankruptcy, appoint a new interim trustee.

(2)Without prejudice to section 1A(2) of this Act or to subsection (1) above, where the court is satisfied that an interim trustee—

(a)is unable to act (whether by, under or by virtue of a provision of this Act or from any other cause whatsoever); or

(b)has so conducted himself that he should no longer continue to act in the sequestration,

the court, on the application of the debtor, a creditor or the Accountant in Bankruptcy, shall remove from office the interim trustee and appoint a new interim trustee.

(3)An interim trustee (not being the Accountant in Bankruptcy) may apply to the court for authority to resign office; and if the court is satisfied that the grounds mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2) above apply in relation to the interim trustee, it shall grant the application.

(4)Where, following an application under subsection (3) above, the interim trustee resigns office, the court shall appoint a new interim trustee.

(5)Where the interim trustee has died, the court, on the application of the debtor, a creditor or the Accountant in Bankruptcy, shall appoint a new interim trustee.

(6)No one (other than the Accountant in Bankruptcy) shall act as interim trustee in a sequestration if he would, by virtue of section 24(2) of this Act, be disqualified from acting as permanent trustee in that sequestration; but where an interim trustee is, by virtue of this subsection, prohibited from so acting, he shall forthwith make an application under subsection (3) above.

(7)Subsections (1) and (2) of section 2 of this Act shall apply as regards the appointment of an interim trustee under this section as if for any reference to—

(a)the court awarding sequestration of the debtor’s estate, there was substituted a reference to the court appointing a new interim trustee; and

(b)the petition for sequestration there was substituted a reference to the application under this section for the appointment of a new interim trustee.

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