PART 2
OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE
Use of proxies by Official Assignee
6.  Where the Official Assignee holds any proxy and cannot conveniently attend any meeting of creditors at which the proxy might be used, the Official Assignee may in writing depute a person in the employment or under the official control of the Official Assignee, or a public officer, to attend the meeting and use the proxy on the Official Assignee’s behalf in any manner that the Official Assignee may direct.
Removal of special manager
7.—(1)  Where a special manager has been appointed under section 379 of the Act, the Official Assignee may at any time remove the special manager if the special manager’s employment seems unnecessary or unprofitable to the estate.
(2)  The Official Assignee must remove a special manager if so required by a special resolution of the creditors of the estate.
Deposits payable to Official Assignee
8.—(1)  In the case of each of the following applications, the appropriate deposit must be paid to the Official Assignee by the person making the application before the application is made:
(a)a creditor’s bankruptcy application under section 307 of the Act (including an amended creditor’s bankruptcy application where the Court orders a substitution of an applicant creditor under the Personal Insolvency Rules);
(b)a debtor’s bankruptcy application under section 308 of the Act;
(c)an application under section 324 of the Act for the appointment of the Official Assignee as the interim receiver of the property of a debtor or any part of the property of a debtor;
(d)an application under section 419 of the Act for the administration in bankruptcy of the estate of a deceased debtor.
(2)  In this regulation, “appropriate deposit” means the appropriate deposit specified in the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Official Assignee’s Fees) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 590/2020).