Section 374: Register of Insolvency Practitioners
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374. Register of Insolvency Practitioners
(1) The Director shall keep and maintain a register of Insolvency Practitioners in which there shall be entered the name, address and qualifications
of every Insolvency Practitioner.
(2) Every Insolvency Practitioner shall, within 7 days of the date of his
appointment, give notice to the Director in the prescribed form of that person’s appointment.
(3) (a) Every Insolvency Practitioner who for a period of 6 months has
ceased to hold any office as an Insolvency Practitioner shall, within 7 days,
give notice of that fact to the Director.
(b) In the event of that person again being appointed as an Insolvency Practitioner, that person shall give notice to the Director under subsection (2).
(4) Every Insolvency Practitioner who is suspended or removed from the
practice of accountancy or law or the practice of a company secretary by
any professional body in Mauritius or by a comparable professional body outside Mauritius, shall give notice of that fact to the Director within 7 days of
the Insolvency Practitioner receiving notice of the suspension or removal
from practice.
(5) Where the Director receives notice under subsection (4), or is otherwise advised by the professional body concerned, or has reasonable grounds
to suspect that an Insolvency Practitioner has been suspended or removed
by the relevant professional body from the practice of accountancy or law or
the practice of a company secretary, the Director may, where he has reasonable ground to suspect that the person may be unfit to continue to act as an
Insolvency Practitioner, after providing the Insolvency Practitioner with an
opportunity to be heard, suspend the Insolvency Practitioner from continuing
in office as an Insolvency Practitioner pending the making of further inquiries
and the making of an application to the Court under section 376 and the
making by the Court of a prohibition order pursuant to any of those sections.
(6) The Director shall enter against the name of the person concerned in
the register of Insolvency Practitioners any of the following matters that may
affect that person—
(a) that the person has been subject of a prohibition order by the
Court under section 176, 210 or 286;
(b) that the person has been suspended or removed from the practice of accountancy or law or the practice of a company secretary by any professional body in Mauritius or by any comparable
body outside Mauritius where the Director has received notice to
that effect from the professional body or from the person concerned;
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(c) that the person has died; or
(d) that the person has ceased to practise as an Insolvency Practitioner and requested the Director to remove his name from the
register.
(7) Clauses 1, 6 and 7 of the Tenth Schedule, so far as they are applicable, shall apply to the register of Insolvency Practitioners kept under this section.