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relevant office-holder

a relevant office-holder as defined in section 189 of the Companies Act 1989, which is in summary:

  1. (a) the official receiver;
  2. (b) (in relation to a company) any person acting as its liquidator, provisional liquidator, administrator or administrative receiver;
  3. (c) (in relation to an individual or a debtor within the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985) a trustee in bankruptcy, interim receiver of property, or permanent or interim trustee in the sequestration of an estate;
  4. (d) any person acting as administrator of an insolvent estate of a deceased person.5