The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Debtor applications

12.—(1) A debtor application to AiB—

(a) in the case of an application by a living debtor, or by the executor (or a person entitled to be appointed executor) on the estate of a deceased debtor, must be in Form 1;

(b) in the case of an application by an entity referred to in section 6(1) of the Act, must be in Form 3 accompanied by a statement of assets and liabilities in Form 4.

(2) Where in a debtor application the debtor nominates an insolvency practitioner to act as the trustee in the sequestration and the insolvency practitioner agrees to act, the application must be accompanied by the insolvency practitioner’s written undertaking to act as the trustee in Form 12.

(3) The Accountant in Bankruptcy or Depute Accountant in Bankruptcy must daily sign a Schedule in Form 7 listing those debtors whose estates have been sequestrated that day, and must enter the Schedule into the register of insolvencies.

(4) AiB must notify in writing debtors in respect of whom an award of sequestration has been made without delay after the award of sequestration.

(5) Where AiB refuses to award sequestration, the Accountant in Bankruptcy or Depute Accountant in Bankruptcy must complete and sign a Form 8 in respect of the debtor and without delay send a copy to the applicant, or applicants, in the debtor application.

(6) Where AiB awards sequestration the certified notice of the determination to be sent by AiB to the Keeper for recording in terms of section 26(2) of the Act must be in Form 9 and the certification is to be by the Accountant in Bankruptcy, Depute Accountant in Bankruptcy or any other person authorised by the Accountant in Bankruptcy to certify the notice of the determination on behalf of the Accountant in Bankruptcy.

(7) A certified notice containing an electronic signature, in a form to be agreed between AiB and the Keeper, of a determination referred to in paragraph (6) may be sent by AiB to the Keeper electronically(1).

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This regulation re-enacts, with modifications, regulation 5 of the 2014 Regulations.