ORDER 73

PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE PERSONAL INSOLVENCY ACT, 2012

I. Preliminary and General

1. (1) In this Order:—

the ‘Act’ means the Personal Insolvency Act, 2012;

‘approved intermediary’ means a person authorised by the Insolvency Service under section 47 of the Act to perform the functions of an approved intermediary under Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Act;

“authorised officer” means a person appointed by the Insolvency Service under section 176B¹ of the Act;

unless the context requires otherwise, ‘creditor’ has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Act;

unless the context requires otherwise, ‘debtor’ has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Act;

each of the expressions ‘Debt Settlement Arrangement’, ‘domestic support order’, ‘electronic means’, ‘excludable debt’, ‘excluded debt’, ‘insolvency arrangement’, ‘Minister’, ‘Personal Insolvency Arrangement’, ‘personal insolvency practitioner’, ‘principal private residence’, ‘protective certificate’, ‘relative’, ‘relevant pension arrangement’, ‘secured creditor’, ‘secured debt’, ‘specified debt’, ‘spouse’, ‘unsecured creditor’ and ‘unsecured debt’ has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Act;

‘electronic user’ means a person, or a person within a category of persons, for the time being authorised, or as the case may be required, to deliver, file or lodge documents electronically in accordance with rule 4(1);

‘the Insolvency Service’ means the Insolvency Service of Ireland established by section 8 of the Act;