Section 251L: Power of official receiver to revoke or amend a debt relief order, Insolvency Act 1986

The official receiver may revoke or amend a debt relief order during the applicable moratorium period in the circumstances provided for by this section.

The official receiver may revoke the order on the ground that—

any information supplied to him by the debtor—

in, or in support of, the application, or

after the determination date,

was incomplete, incorrect or otherwise misleading;

the debtor has failed to comply with a duty under section 251J;

a bankruptcy order has been made in relation to the debtor; or

the debtor has made a proposal under Part 8 (or has notified the official receiver of his intention to do so).

The official receiver may revoke the order on the ground that he should not have been satisfied—

that the debts specified in the order were qualifying debts of the debtor as at the application date;

that the conditions specified in Part 1 of Schedule 4ZA were met;

that the conditions specified in Part 2 of that Schedule were met or that any failure to meet such a condition did not prevent his making the order.

Where the official receiver decides to revoke the order, he may revoke it either—

with immediate effect, or

with effect from such date (not more than three months after the date of the decision) as he may specify.

In considering when the revocation should take effect the official receiver must consider (in the light of the grounds on which the decision to revoke was made and all the other circumstances of the case) whether the debtor ought to be given the opportunity to make arrangements for making payments towards his debts.

If the order has been revoked with effect from a specified date the official receiver may, if he thinks it appropriate to do so at any time before that date, revoke the order with immediate effect.

The official receiver may amend a debt relief order for the purpose of correcting an error in or omission from anything specified in the order.

But subsection (8) does not permit the official receiver to add any debts that were not specified in the application for the debt relief order to the list of qualifying debts.

The rules may make further provision as to the procedure to be followed by the official receiver in the exercise of his powers under this section.

Section 251L: Power of official receiver to revoke or amend a debt relief order

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