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10.4

The

In July, the Financial Secretary asked the Standing Committee

for our views on certain aspects of the existing legislation and we

decided that it would be appropriate to start our review of the whole

subject of insider dealing mentioned in our Report for 1984.

Inspectors' reports on the investigations into the Carrian Group and

the Eda Group were still not available to us but we decided that, as

there was no reliable estimate as to when they would become available

and as the subject of insider dealing had been attracting increasing

attention, we should start our consideration of the subject without

the benefit of the reports.

10.5

We have considered voluminous material on insider dealing

at our subsequent meetings during 1986, except at our November meeting

when we considered and approved the draft Bill implementing our

recommendations made at the end of December 1985 regarding

disclosure of beneficial ownership of shareholdings in listed

companies

a subject which is closely related to insider dealing.

We have not yet reached a decision on what recommendations we should

make but hope to do so early in 1987.

11.

Insolvency Law and Practice

The Insolvency Acts 1985 & 86

11.1

The Standing Committee's Report for 1984 mentioned at

paragraph 5.1 that the Committee had considered two aspects of The Cork

Report on Insolvency Law & Practice, namely, Wrongful Trading and The

Ten Per Cent Fund. It was also noted that the Registrar General in

his capacity as Official Receiver was considering the proposals in the

Report regarding Administration Orders. It was stated that further

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