Part 5: Debt Management and Relief Schedule 18: Schedule 4ZA to the Insolvency Act 1986 Schedule 21 – Regulations under sections 111 and 113 Section 119: Existing county court proceedings to be stayed
595.This section provides that any county court proceedings that were pending against the debtor when the DRP was arranged, must be stayed if the following conditions are met:
	the proceedings relate to a qualifying debt of the debtor’s and they are not bankruptcy proceedings;
	the creditor under the debt is unable to enforce it because of the prohibition referred to in section 116 (remedies other than bankruptcy); and
	The county court, in the proceedings, which are to be stayed) has notice of the DRP.
596.Where proceedings are stayed under this section, the county court has discretion to allow the creditor any costs incurred in the stayed proceedings. A scheme operator may, if asked to do so by the debtor or creditor, add those costs to the amount specified in the plan in respect of that debt so long as the operator is not under a duty to terminate the plan (for example, because the new total debt exceeds the scheme’s maximum).