Assignment of book debtsE+W
Rule 6—(1) There shall continue to be kept in the Central Office, under the supervision of the registrar, a register of assignments of book debts.
(2) Every application for registration of an assignment of a book debt under section 344 of the Insolvency Act 1986(4) shall be made by producing at the Filing and Record Department of the Central Office—
(a)a true copy of the assignment, and of every schedule thereto, and
(b)a witness statement or affidavit verifying the date and the time, and the due execution of the assignment in the presence of the witness, and setting out the particulars of the assignment and the parties thereto.
(3) On an application being made in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the documents there referred to shall be filed, and the particulars of the assignment, and of the parties to it, shall be entered in the register.
(4) In this rule, “the registrar” has the meaning given in section 13 of the Bills of Sale Act 1878.