MANU/NMIC/0034/2024

Department/Board : Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India

Notification No. : IBBI/2023-24/GN/REG111

Date of Notification : 31.01.2024

Date of Publication : 31.01.2024

Subject: Insolvency

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye-Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

No. IBBI/2023-24/GN/REG111.--In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 196 and 205 read with section 240 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (31 of 2016), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye- Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) Regulations, 2016, namely: -

1.    (1) These regulations may be called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye-Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye-Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) Regulations, 2016, in the Schedule, in para VI, in clause 12A, for sub-clause (6), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely: -

"(6) An authorisation for assignment issued or renewed by the Agency shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance or renewal, as the case may be:

Provided that an authorisation for assignment issued or renewed by the Agency shall be valid till 30th of June of the year where the expiry of the period of one year falls from 1st of January to 30th of June, or till 31st of December of the year where the expiry of the period of one year falls from 1st of July to 31st of December:

Provided further that if the professional member attains the age of seventy years during this period, the authorisation for assignment shall be valid till such date."

RAVI MITAL,
Chairperson
[ADVT.-III/4/Exty./729/2023-24]

Note: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye-Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) Regulations, 2016 were published vide Notification No. IBBI/2016-17/GN/REG001 dated 21st November, 2016 in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, No. 421 on 22nd November, 2016 and were last amended by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Model Bye-Laws and Governing Board of Insolvency Professional Agencies) (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 published vide Notification No. IBBI/2023-24/GN/REG105 dated 18th September 2023, in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4, No. 644 on 18th September 2023.