Section 456NCorporations Act 2001 (Cth)

Appointment of 2 or more restructuring practitioners of restructuring plan

(1) Where a provision of this Act provides for a small business restructuring practitioner for a restructuring plan to be appointed, 2 or more persons may be appointed as small business restructuring practitioners of the plan.

(2) Where, because of subsection (1), there are 2 or more small business restructuring practitioners for a restructuring plan:

(a) a function, duty or power of a restructuring practitioner for the plan may be performed or exercised by any one of them, or by any 2 or more of them together, except so far as the plan, or the instrument appointing them, otherwise provides; and

(b) a reference in this Act to a restructuring practitioner, or to the restructuring practitioner, for a restructuring plan is, in the case of the first‑mentioned plan, a reference to whichever one or more of those restructuring practitioners the case requires.

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