House of Commons - Draft Legislative Reform (Insolvency) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2009 - Regulatory Reform Committee

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Regulatory Reform Committee - Eighth Report
Draft Legislative Reform (Insolvency) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2009

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 7 July 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary
1  What the draft Order proposes

Introduction
The proposals
Parliamentary procedure

2  Consultation
3  Preconditions and tests

Proposal A: Remote attendance at meetings
Proposal B: Use of websites as a means of communication
Proposal C: Reference to things "in writing" and "post"
Proposal D: Removal of requirements for documents to be verified by affidavit
Proposal E: Removal of requirement for certain annual meetings
Proposal F: Removal of requirement for certain documents to be filed at court in Individual Voluntary Arrangements
Proposal G: Removal of requirement for sanction (i.e. approval) for certain acts of the office-holder

4  Impact Assessment and potential savings
5  Conclusion
6  Annex

Response by the Insolvency Service to written questions

Formal Minutes relating to the report
Reports from the Regulatory Reform Committee during the current Parliament inside back cover

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Prepared 9 July 2009