S.I. No. 246/2013 - Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (Personal Insolvency Practitioner Authorisation and Renewal of Authorisation Prescribed Fees) Regulations 2013.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (Personal Insolvency Practitioner Authorisation and Renewal of Authorisation Prescribed Fees) Regulations 2013.

2. (1) The amount of €1,500 is prescribed as the fee payable to the Insolvency Service of Ireland for the purposes of section 163(2)(

e

) of the Act.

(2) The amount of €1,000 is prescribed as the fee payable to the Insolvency Service of Ireland for the purposes of section 166(2)(

c

)(ii) of the Act.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Justice andEquality,

4 July 2013.

ALAN SHATTER,

Minister for Justice and Equality.

GIVEN under the seal of the Insolvency Service of Ireland,

4 July 2013.

LORCAN O’CONNOR,

Director of the Insolvency Service of Ireland.

CATHY CLARKE,

A Member of the Staff of the Insolvency Service of Ireland Authorised by the Director of the Insolvency Service of Ireland to Authenticate the Seal of the Insolvency Service of Ireland.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These regulations set out the fees applicable for authorisation and renewal of authorisation as a personal insolvency practitioner.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

12

th July

, 2013.

The Insolvency Service of Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on it by

section 3

and

section 20

of the

Personal Insolvency Act 2012

[No. 44 of 2012] (the “Act”), with the consent of the Minister for Justice and Equality, hereby makes the following regulations