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The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1987

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Amendment of Rule 3.1

23.  For Rule 3.1 there shall be substituted the following:—

Acceptance and confirmation of acceptance of appointment

3.1.(1) Where two or more persons are appointed as joint receivers or managers of a company’s property under powers contained in an instrument, the acceptance of such an appointment shall be made by each of them in accordance with section 33 as if that person were a sole appointee, but the joint appointment takes effect only when all such persons have so accepted and is then deemed to have been made at the time at which the instrument of appointment was received by or on behalf of all such persons.

(2) Subject to the next paragraph, where a person is appointed as the sole or joint receiver of a company’s property under powers contained in an instrument, the appointee shall, if he accepts the appointment, within 7 days confirm his acceptance in writing to the person appointing him.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply where an appointment is accepted in writing.

(4) Any acceptance or confirmation of acceptance of appointment as a receiver or manager of a company’s property, whether under the Act or the Rules, may be given by any person (including, in the case of a joint appointment, any joint appointee) duly authorised for that purpose on behalf of the receiver or manager.

(5) In confirming acceptance the appointee or person authorised for that purpose shall state—

(a)the time and date of receipt of the instrument of appointment, and

(b)the time and date of acceptance..

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