Section 189: Meaning of "relevant office-holder".

Companies Act 1989 · 1989 c. 40View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VII: Financial Markets and Insolvency

The following are relevant office-holders for the purposes of this Part—

the official receiver,
any person acting in relation to a company as its liquidator, provisional liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver,
any person acting in relation to an individual (or, in Scotland, any debtor within the meaning of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016) as his trustee in bankruptcy or interim receiver of his property or as trustee or interim trustee in the sequestration of his estate,
any person acting as administrator of an insolvent estate of a deceased person.

In subsection (1)(b) "company" means any company, society, association, partnership or other body which may be wound up under the Insolvency Act 1986.

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