Insolvency resolution for corporate persons (amendment)

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022

No. IBBI/2022-23/GN/REG091.- In exercise of the powers conferred by clauses (aa) and (t) of sub-section (1) of section 196 read with section 240 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (31 of 2016), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016, namely: –

1. (1) These regulations may be called the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2022.
   (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
   
2. In the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the principal regulations’), the word “Schedule” shall be substituted with the word and mark “Schedule-I”, wherever it is appearing.
   
3. In the principal regulations, after regulation 34A, the following regulations shall be inserted, namely:-
   
   “34B. Fee to be paid to interim resolution professional and resolution professional.
   
   (1) The fee of interim resolution professional or resolution professional, under regulation 33 and 34, shall be decided by the applicant or committee in accordance with this regulation.
   
   (2) The fee of the interim resolution professional or the resolution professional, appointed on or after
   1st October 2022, shall not be less than the fee specified in clause 1 for the period specified in
   clause 2 of Schedule-II:
   Provided that the applicant or the committee may decide to fix higher amount of fee for the reasons to be recorded, taking into consideration market factors such as size and scale of business operations of corporate debtor, business sector in which corporate debtor operates, level of operating economic activity of corporate debtor and complexity related to process.
   
   (3) After the expiry of period mentioned in clause 2 of Schedule-II, the fee of the interim resolution professional or resolution professional shall be as decided by the applicant or committee, as the case may be.
   
   (4) For the resolution plan approved by the committee on or after 1st October 2022, the committee may decide, in its discretion, to pay performance-linked incentive fee, not exceeding five crore rupees, in accordance with clause 3 and clause 4 of Schedule-II or may extend any other performance linked incentive structure as it deems necessary.
   
   (5) The fee under this regulation may be paid from the funds, available with the corporate debtor, contributed by the applicant or members of the committee and/or raised by way of interim finance
   and shall be included in the insolvency resolution process cost.”
   
4. In the principal regulations, after Schedule-I, the following shall be inserted, namely: –

“Schedule-II
(Under Regulation 34B of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process
for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016)

Also Read: 

• MCA Updated E-form DIR-3-KYC and web-form DIR-3-KYC-WEB
• These rules may be called Companies (Acceptance of Deposits) Amendment Rules, 2022

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