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These Regulations may be cited as the Insolvency Practitioners (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on the day after they are laid before Parliament.
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(1) The Insolvency Practitioners Regulations 1986 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In Regulation 6 (practical training and experience requirements for applicants), after paragraph (5) add–“
(5A) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, the reference to an insolvency practitioner in the definition of office-holder in Regulation 1(3) shall be construed in accordance with section 388 of the Act but without regard to subsection (5) of that section and references to an office-holder who has been appointed or to a person who has been appointed an office-holder shall include references to the official receiver in any case where the official receiver is or has been an office-holder whether by virtue of his office or otherwise.”.
John Redwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Trade and Industry
23rd November 1989