Singapore legislation

Regulation 79

of Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Personal Insolvency) Rules 2020

Regulation 79

Personal service on individual debtor

Subregulation 1

Subject to rule 81, a creditor’s bankruptcy application and the affidavit supporting the application must be served together and personally on the debtor by —

(a)

an officer of the Court;

(b)

the applicant creditor or a person in the employment of the applicant creditor; or

(c)

the applicant creditor’s solicitor or a person in the employment of the solicitor.

Subregulation 2

The personal service of a creditor’s bankruptcy application and the affidavit supporting the application on a debtor is effected by delivering a sealed copy of the application together with its supporting affidavit to the debtor.