Bankruptcy Regulations 1996

PART 10 - PERSONAL INSOLVENCY AGREEMENTS  

REGULATION 10.02   INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN TO DEBTOR (ACT SS 188(2AA) AND (2AB))  

10.02(1)    
For subsections 188(2AA) and (2AB) of the Act, the following information is prescribed:


(a) information about the consequences of entering into a personal insolvency agreement;


(b) information about sources of financial advice and guidance to persons facing or contemplating entering into a personal insolvency agreement;


(c) information about whether a personal insolvency agreement may be administered by a registered trustee or the Official Trustee;


(d) a statement that it is an act of bankruptcy if a debtor does any of the things mentioned in paragraphs 40(1)(i) to (m) of the Act;


(e) information about the processes under Part X of the Act;


(f) information about a debtor's rights and responsibilities under Part X of the Act, including a debtor's obligation to disclose all related entities;


(g) information about a controlling trustee's obligation to disclose his or her relationship with a debtor.

10.02(2)    
The information must be factual and objective.

10.02(3)    
A person authorised under subsection 188(1) of the Act to take control of a debtor's property must not consent to exercise the powers given by the authority unless the debtor has given the person a signed acknowledgement (which may be included with or appended to the authority) that the debtor has received and read the prescribed information.

10.02(4)    


Subregulation (5) applies if a debtor intends to sign an authority and the debtor is:


(a) unable to read the relevant material, because he or she is:


(i) blind, partially sighted, illiterate or partially literate; or

(ii) insufficiently familiar with the English language; or


(b) unable to sign the authority or the acknowledgment, because of a physical incapacity.


10.02(5)    


The authority and the acknowledgement may be signed by another person, who must sign a statement:


(a) if subparagraph (5)(a)(i) applies - that he or she has read the relevant material to the debtor; or


(b) if subparagraph (5)(a)(ii) applies - that he or she has interpreted the relevant material to the debtor in a language with which both persons are familiar; or


(c) if paragraph (5)(b) applies - that he or she believes that the debtor has read and understood the relevant material.


10.02(6)    


In this regulation:

relevant material
means the authority, the prescribed information and the acknowledgment.





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