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Part 5A · Simplified Restructuring of Debts

72QA. Application of sections 124 and 125

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Last amended by an amending law of 2025.

(1)

This section applies where a company enters into the simplified debt restructuring programme and is subsequently discharged pursuant to section 72Q without the approval of the creditors for a compromise or an arrangement in satisfaction of the company’s debts.

(2)

Where this section applies —

(a)

section 124 applies as if the following paragraph appears after paragraph (i) of subsection (1):“(j)its Restructuring Adviser.”;

(b)

section 125 applies as if the following paragraph appears after paragraph (n) of subsection (1):“(o)the company is discharged from the simplified debt restructuring programme pursuant to section 72Q.”; and

(c)

section 125 applies as if the following subsection appears after subsection (4):“(4A) For the purpose of subsection (1)(o), where the Court determines that the company satisfies the requirements of section 250F, the Court may, in lieu of ordering the winding up of the company under section 124, order the company to enter into the simplified winding up programme under Part 10A, whereupon the provisions of Part 10A apply, with such adaptations as are necessary, as if the authorisation of the company has been obtained in general meeting.”.

Report

Part 6

Corporate Insolvency — Receivership

Part 7

Judicial Management

Part 8

Winding Up

Part 9

Provisions Applicable in Judicial Management and Winding Up

Part 10

Winding Up of Unregistered Companies and Liquidation or Dissolution of Foreign Companies

Part 10A

Simplified Winding Up

Part 11

Cross-Border Insolvency

Part 12

General Provisions Applicable to Parts 4 to 11

Part 13

Bankruptcy — Preliminary

Part 14

Voluntary Arrangements

Part 15

Debt Repayment Scheme

Part 16

Proceedings in Bankruptcy

Part 17

Administration in Bankruptcy

Part 18

Annulment and Discharge

Part 19

Duties, Disqualification and Disabilities of Bankrupt

Part 20

Bankruptcy Offences

Part 21

Bankruptcy Miscellaneous Provisions

Part 22

Provisions Against Debt Avoidance and Limitation on Certain Contractual Rights

Part 23

Miscellaneous and General Provisions

Part 24

Consequential and Related Amendments to Other Acts

Part 25

Saving and Transitional Provisions

Schedules