Singapore legislation

Section 89

of Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018

Section 89

Purpose of judicial management and judicial manager

(1)

The judicial manager of a company must perform the judicial manager’s functions to achieve one or more of the following purposes of judicial management:

(a)

the survival of the company, or the whole or part of its undertaking, as a going concern;

(b)

the approval under section 210 of the Companies Act 1967 or section 71 of a compromise or an arrangement between the company and any such persons as are mentioned in the applicable section;

(c)

a more advantageous realisation of the company’s assets or property than on a winding up.

(2)

A judicial manager or an interim judicial manager of a company must perform the functions of the judicial manager or interim judicial manager in the interests of the company’s creditors as a whole.

(3)

A judicial manager or an interim judicial manager of a company must perform the functions of the judicial manager or interim judicial manager as quickly and efficiently as is reasonably practicable.

(4)

A judicial manager or an interim judicial manager of a company is an officer of the Court (whether or not the judicial manager or interim judicial manager is appointed by the Court).

Section 89 — Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018