Commentary on Sections Determining unfitness Section 107: Reports of office-holders on conduct of directors of insolvent companies
690.This section inserts a new section 7A into the CDDA 1986 that simplifies the procedure whereby an office-holder (the official receiver, liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver) reports on the conduct of directors of insolvent companies.
691.Currently the CDDA 1986 (see section 7(3)) requires office holders to submit a report to the Secretary of State if it appears to them that the conduct of the director makes them unfit to be concerned in the management of a company.
692.The new section requires submission to the Secretary of State of a conduct report on every director of a company that become insolvent. The conduct report must describe any conduct which may assist the Secretary of State in deciding whether it is in the public interest to apply for the making of a disqualification order. The report must be submitted in all cases within 3 months of the insolvency date.
693.New subsections (5) and (6) require an office-holder to send any new information that should have been included in a conduct report as soon as practically possible after it comes to the attention of the office-holder.
694.New subsections (7) and (8) remove the requirement for office-holders to submit a report where a report has already been submitted by an office-holder, either where the company has moved between insolvency procedures or where a new office-holder has been appointed in the same procedure.