Income payments orderF1E+W
7(1)This paragraph applies where—
(a)a pre-commencement bankrupt is discharged by virtue of paragraph 4(1)(a), and
(b)an income payments order is in force in respect of him immediately before his discharge.
(2)If the income payments order specifies a date after which it is not to have effect, it shall continue in force until that date (and then lapse).
(3)But the court may on the application of the pre-commencement bankrupt—
(a)vary the income payments order;
(b)provide for the income payments order to cease to have effect before the date referred to in sub-paragraph (2).
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]