Section 220: Scheme manager's power to inspect information held by liquidator etc.

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 · 2000 c. 8View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XV: The Financial Services Compensation Scheme

For the purpose of assisting the scheme manager to discharge its functions in relation to a claim made in respect of an insolvent relevant person or insolvent relevant exchange, a person to whom this section applies must permit a person authorised by the scheme manager to inspect relevant documents.

A person inspecting a document under this section may take copies of, or extracts from, the document.

This section applies to—

the administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator , bank liquidator, building society liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy of an insolvent relevant person or insolvent relevant exchange;
the trustee in the sequestration, under the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016, of the estate of an insolvent relevant person or insolvent relevant exchange.

This section does not apply to a liquidator, administrator or trustee in bankruptcy who is—

the Official Receiver;
the Official Receiver for Northern Ireland; or
the Accountant in Bankruptcy.

"Relevant person" and "relevant exchange" have the same meaning as in section 224.

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