Technical Manual Contents

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Updated: 12 May 2010

Index
Ch 1: The Official Receiver (June 2000)
Ch 2: Provisional Liquidators & Interim Receivers (October 1998)
Ch 3: Initial Procedure when winding-up order made (March 2008)
Ch 4: Initial Procedure when bankruptcy order made (March 2008)
Ch 5: Publication of Insolvency Information (April 2009)
Ch 6: Appeals, stays and rescissions (June 2008)
Ch 6A: Annulment (July 2008)
Ch 7: Transfer of proceedings (October 2007)
Ch 8: Inspections (December 2008)
Ch 9: Action against property of the Insolvent (December 2002)
Ch 10: Custody, storage, preservation and destruction of records (July 2006)
Ch 11: Interviews and Statements (December 2006)
Ch 12: Statement of affairs (Ocotber 2007)
Ch 13: Co-operation, non co-operation and enforcement of duty to co-operate (April 2004)
Ch 14: Public Examinations (April 2000)
Ch 15: Aims and conduct of OR's investigations (February 2006)
Ch 16: Meetings (August 2008)
Ch 17: Appointment of Liquidators and Trustees (September 2006)
Ch 18: Reports to Creditors and Contributories (March 2005)
Ch 19: Court practice and procedure (March 2001)
Ch 20: Official Receiver's role in voluntary arrangements (April 2004)
Ch 21: Second or subsequent bankruptcies (April 2004)
Ch 22: Discharge (April 2004)
Ch 23: Private Examinations (January 1993)
Ch 24: Receiver and Manager (December 1995)
Ch 25: Restrictions on Bankrupts (January 2008)
Ch 26: Unavailable
Ch 27: Unavailable
Ch 28: Unavailable
Ch 29: Unavailable
Ch 30: Assets not comprised in bankrupt's estate (March 2009)
Ch 31: Realisation of assets
- 31.0: Protection and Collection of Asset (December 2008)
- 31.1: Book debts (revised July 2005)
- 31.2: Motor Vehicles (August 2005)
- 31.3: Dealing with freehold & leasehold properties (September 2008)
- 31.4A: Antecedent Recoveries - Preferences and Transactions at an Undervalue (February 2010)
- 31.4B: Antecedent Recoveries - Other Antecedent Recoveries (February 2010)
- 31.5: Monetary Assets (July 2005)
- 31.6: Stock, Work in Progress and Plant Machinery (August 1997)
- 31.7: Income Payments Agreements and Income Payments Orders (December 2006)
- 31.8: Realisation of After-Acquired property (March 2009)
- 31.9: Rights of Action (September 2003)
- 31.10: Sundry Assets (August 2007)
- 31.11: Solely Owned Tenanted Property (March 2010)
Ch 32: Employment of Agents (March 2000)
Ch 33: Bankrupt's interest in the family home (May 2008)
Ch 34: Disclaimer (April 2010)
Ch 35: Criminal Bankruptcy Orders (October 1998)
Ch 36: Estate Accounting (May 2009)
Ch 37: Release of Official Receiver as Liquidator or Trustee (January 2003)
Ch 38: Dissolved Companies (March 2010)
Ch 39: Detailed Assessment (November 2001)
Ch 40: Creditors and Liabilities (February 2006)
Ch 41: Cross-Border Insolvency – European Union (September 2008)
Ch 42: Cross Border Insolvency - Within the UK and Outside the European Union (September 2008)
Ch 43.0: Dealing with the Affairs of a Foreign National Bankrupt (February 2010)
Ch 43.1: Dealing with a Bankrupt's Affairs in Germany (February 2010)
Ch 44: Unavailable
Ch 45: Proceedings up to Order (September 1997)
Ch 46: Debt Relief Orders (March 2010)
Ch 47: Disclosure of information (including inspection and production of records) (September 2007)
Ch 48: Vacation of Office and release of Liquidators and Trustees (other than the Official Receiver) (September 1997)
Ch 49: Insurance (May 2007)
Ch 50: Dealing with the Land Registry (October 2003)
Ch 51: Subordinate legislation (March 1998)
Ch 52: Contents moved to Chapter 42
Ch 53: Partnerships (October 1994)
Ch 53A: Limited Liability Partnerships (May 2008)
Ch 54: Deceased Insolvents (April 2005)
Ch 55: Insolvency Practitioners (December 2007)
Ch 56: Alternative Corporate Procedures (September 2003)
Ch 57: Alternative Individual procedures (July 1997)
Ch 58: Unregistered Companies (November 1995)
Ch 59: Unusual Businesses and Related assets (December 2007)
Ch 60: The Legal Services Commission and the provision of publicly funded legal help and assistance (May 2006)
Ch 61: Pension Schemes (July 2006)
Ch 62: Carrying on a business (November 1997)
Ch 63: Retention of Title (September 1994)
Ch 64: Legal Professional Privilege (June 1998)
Ch 65: Practitioners Reference to Secretary of State in absence of liquidation or creditors' committee (August 2002)
Ch 66: Computerised Accounting records (July 2002)
Ch 67: Unavailable
Ch 68: Unavailable
Ch 69: Law of Property Act Receivers (March 2001)
Ch 70: Unavailable
Ch 71: Unavailable
Ch 72: Unavailable
Ch 73: Unavailable
Ch 74: Unavailable
Ch 75: Unavailable
Ch 76: Employment Law (May 1998)
Ch 77: Direct Taxation (September 2006)
Ch 78: Value Added Tax (July 2007)
Ch 79: Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930 (September 1995)
Ch 80: Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (March 2003)
Ch 81: Freedom of Information and Environmental Information (April 2009)
Ch 81A: Data Protection (April 2009)
Ch 82: Environmental Legislation (November 1997)
Ch 83: Human Rights Act 1998 (September 2000)

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