2.4.40:Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016.

40. Extension of the corporate insolvency resolution process period.

(1) The committee may instruct the resolution professional to make an application to the Adjudicating Authority under section 12 to extend the insolvency resolution process period.

(2) The resolution professional shall, on receiving an instruction from the committee under this Regulation, make an application to the Adjudicating Authority for such extension.

It is clarified that the resolution professional shall continue to discharge his responsibilities under the corporate insolvency resolution process, till theapplication for extension is decided by the Adjudicating Authority.

The following Table presents a model timeline of corporate insolvency resolution process on the assumption that the interim resolution professional is appointed on the date of commencement of the process and the time available is hundred and eighty days:

AA: Adjudicating Authority; AR: Authorised Representative; CIRP: Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process; CoC: Committee of Creditors; EoI: Expression of Interest; IM: Information Memorandum; IRP: Interim Resolution Professional; RA: Resolution Applicant; RP: Resolution Professional; RFRP: Request for Resolution Plan

(1) The insolvency professional, interim resolution professional or resolution professional, as the case may be, shall file the Forms, along with the enclosures thereto, on an electronic platform of the Board, as per the timelines stipulated against each Form, in the table below:-

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Where any activity stated in column (2) of table below is not complete by the date specified therein, the interim resolution professional or resolution professional, as the case may be, shall file Form CIRP 7 within three days of the said date, and continue to file Form CIRP 7, every 30 days, until the said activity remains incomplete-:

T = Insolvency commencement date, and

X = Date of filing of Form CIRP 7 for the first time under column (3).

Provided that subsequent filing of Form CIRP 7 shall not be made until thirty days have lapsed from the filing of an earlier Form CIRP 7.

Clarification: Only one Form CIRP 7 shall be filed at any time whether one or more activity is not complete by the specified date.

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(a) If public announcement is not made by T+3rd day, Form CIRP 7 shall be filed by T+6th day. Thereafter, if public announcement is made on T+16th day, no further Form CIRP 7 will be filed. However, if public announcement is not made till T+33rd day, Form CIRP 7 shall be filed on T+36th day.

(b) If public announcement is not made by T+3rd day, Form CIRP 7 shall be filed by T+6th day. Thereafter, if public announcement is made on T+16th day, no further Form CIRP 7 will be filed. However, if RP is not appointed by T+30th day, though Form CIRP 7 becomes due by T+33rd day, it shall be filed on 30th day from the filing of first Form CIRP 7, that is, on T+36th day.

(c) If public announcement is not made by T+3rd day, Form CIRP 7 shall be filed by T+6th day. Thereafter, if either public announcement is not made till T+33rd day or RP is not appointed by T+30th day, Form CIRP 7 shall be filed on T+36th day.

The resolution professional shall file Form CIRP 8 intimating details of his opinion and determination under regulation 35A, on or before the one hundred and fortieth day of the insolvency commencement date: Provided that the filing of Form CIRP 8 shall not become due unless a period of thirty days has elapsed from the date of commencement of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2021.

(2) The Board shall make available the Forms on the electronic platform and may modify them from time to time.

(3) The insolvency professional or interim resolution professional or resolution professional, as the case may be, shall ensure that the Forms and its enclosures filed under this regulation are .

(4) The filing of a Form under this regulation after due date of submission, whether by correction, updation or otherwise, shall be accompanied by a fee of five hundred rupees per Form for each calendar month of delay after 1st January, 2020.

Example: A Form is required to be filed by 30th January, 2020. It shall be filed along with a fee as under:

(5) The insolvency professional or interim resolution professional or resolution professional, as the case may be, shall be liable to any action which the Board may take as deemed fit under the Code or any regulation made thereunder, including refusal to issue or renew Authorisation for Assignment, for-

(i) failure to file a form along with requisite information and records;

(ii) inaccurate or incomplete information or records filed in or along with a form;

(iii) delay in filing the form.

Notwithstanding the time-lines contained in these regulations, but subject to the provisions in the Code, the period of lockdown imposed by the Central Government in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak shall not be counted for the purposes of the time-line for any activity that could not be completed due to such lockdown, in relation to a corporate insolvency resolution process.

(1) The committee while considering the liquidation of the corporate debtor may consider factors including but not limited to non-operational status for preceding three years, goods produced or service offered or technology employed being obsolete, absence of any assets, lack of any intangible assets or factors which bring value as a going concern over and above the physical assets like brand value, intellectual property, accumulated losses, depreciation, investments that are yet to mature.

(2) Such consideration may be recorded and submitted in the application for liquidation submitted by the resolution professional to the Adjudicating Authority.