Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:schedule:2:p46
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 46/73)
Character Range: 6428381–6431270

external administrator of a company to:
 (a) give information; or
 (b) provide a report; or
 (c) produce a document;
to the member.
 (3) The external administrator must comply with the request unless:
 (a) the information, report or document is not relevant to the external administration of the company; or
 (b) the external administrator would breach his or her duties in relation to the external administration of the company if the external administrator complied with the request; or
 (c) it is otherwise not reasonable for the external administrator to comply with the request.
 (4) The Insolvency Practice Rules may prescribe circumstances in which it is, or is not, reasonable for an external administrator of a company to comply with a request of a kind mentioned in subsection (2).

70‑50  Reporting to creditors and members
 (1) The Insolvency Practice Rules may provide for and in relation to the obligations of external administrators of companies:
 (a) to give information; and
 (b) to provide reports; and
 (c) to produce documents;
to creditors or members.
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Insolvency Practice Rules may provide for and in relation to:
 (a) other circumstances in which the external administrator of a company must give information, provide a report or produce a document to a creditor or member; and
 (b) the manner and form in which information is to be given, a report provided or a document produced; and
 (c) the timeframes in which information is to be given, a report provided or a document produced; and
 (d) who is to bear the cost of giving information, providing a report or producing a document.
 (3) The Insolvency Practice Rules may:
 (a) make different provision in relation to different kinds of external administration; and
 (b) provide that specified requirements imposed under the Insolvency Practice Rules may be replaced or modified, by resolution, by:
 (i) the creditors; or
 (ii) the members; or
 (iii) if there is a committee of inspection—the committee.

Subdivision E—Other requests for information etc.

70‑55  Commonwealth may request information etc.

Application of this section
 (1) This section applies if either:
 (a) a former employee of a company under external administration has made a claim for financial assistance from the Commonwealth in relation to unpaid employment entitlements; or
 (b) the Commonwealth considers that such a claim is likely to be made.

Commonwealth may request information etc.
 (2) The Commonwealth may request the external administrator of the company to provide specified information, reports or documents in relation to the external administration.
 (3) The external administrator must comply with the request.
 (4) The Insolvency Practice Rules may provide for and in relation to who is to bear the cost of providing the information, reports or documents.

Subdivision F—Reporting