Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022

21 Bankruptcy: remote meetings of creditors

(1) The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 is modified as follows.

(2) In schedule 6 (meetings of creditors and commissioners)—

(a) for paragraph 13 and the italic heading immediately preceding it substitute—

“Holding of meeting

13 Every meeting must be held either—

(a) in such place (whether or not in the sheriffdom) as is, in the opinion of the person calling the meeting, the most convenient for the majority of the creditors, or

(b) by such electronic means as would, in the opinion of the person calling the meeting, be most convenient to allow the majority of the creditors to participate in the meeting without being together in the same place.

13A Where a meeting is to be held in pursuance of paragraph 13(b), the references in paragraphs 4 and 6 to the place fixed for the holding of the meeting are to be read as references to the electronic means by which attendees are to be able to attend the meeting without being together in the same place.”,

(b) in paragraph 24—

(i) for “and place” substitute “, and at the same place or by the same electronic means,”,

(ii) for “in” to “specified” substitute “the resolution specifies otherwise”.