Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024- (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India) (31 Jan 2024)
MANU/NMIC/0035/2024
Insolvency
In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (aa) and (t) of sub-section (1) of section 196, section 208 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 (Insolvency Professionals) Regulations, 2016, namely: -
1. (1) These regulations may be called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2024.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Professionals) Regulations, 2016, in First Schedule,
(i) after clause 22, the following clause shall be inserted, namely: -
"22A. An insolvency professional may resign from the assignment, subject to the recommendation of the committee of creditors in a corporate insolvency resolution process, consultation committee in liquidation process, the debtor or the creditor in the insolvency resolution process of personal guarantor to the corporate debtor, as the case may be, and the approval of the Adjudicating Authority.
Explanation.- The insolvency professional shall continue to discharge his duties, functions and responsibilities till the approval of resignation by the Adjudicating Authority."
(ii) in clause 23B, the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely: -
"Explanation.- For the purposes of this clause, the insolvency professional which is an insolvency professional entity may engage or appoint its partners or directors, as the case may be, for or in connection with any work relating to any of its assignment other than work related to valuation and audit of the debtor."
(iii) in clause 23C, the Explanation shall be renumbered as Explanation 1, and after Explanation 1 so renumbered, the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely: -
"Explanation 2.- For the purposes of this clause, the insolvency professional which is an insolvency professional entity may provide any service, other than service related to valuation and audit, for or in connection with the assignment which is being undertaken by any of its partners or directors, as the case may be."
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