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Bankruptcy suspension request filed with wrong authority

15.1999.45Other CourtMar 11, 1999Inadmissible

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The cantonal supervisory authority in bankruptcy received a filing styled as a request to close a bankruptcy for lack of assets. It held that the filing was in substance a request for suspension for lack of assets. Because Art. 230 para. 1 SchKG assigns such requests to the bankruptcy judge, the supervisory authority lacked competence. The request was therefore declared inadmissible and the file was transmitted ex officio to the competent district court.

Omnilex headnote

Art. 230 cpv. 1 LEF; competence for suspension of bankruptcy for lack of assets: a request for suspension must be addressed to the bankruptcy judge and not to the cantonal supervisory authority. Where a filing is mislabeled as a request for closure but is materially a request under Art. 230 LEF, the authority must assess its substance. If competence is lacking, the supervisory authority shall declare the filing inadmissible and transmit the file ex officio to the competent court; see consid. on competence and transmission.

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AIUTO RICERCA

Anteprima di stampa

Numero d'incarto: 15.1999.45

Data decisione, Autorità: 11.03.1999, CEF

Incarto n. 15.99.00045

Lugano 11 marzo 1999/FC/fb

In nome della Repubblica e Cantone del Ticino

La Camera di esecuzione e fallimenti del Tribunale d'appello quale autorità di vigilanza

composta dei giudici:

Cometta, presidente Pellegrini e Zali

segretario:

Baur Martinelli, vicecancelliera

  • richiamata l'istanza 5 marzo 1999 di "chiusura del fallimento per mancanza d'attivi" formulata __________ nel fallimento __________;

  • accertato che non si tratta di chiusura di fallimento ma di sospensione per mancanza di attivi;

  • rilevato che ex art. 230 cpv. 1 LEF l'istanza di sospensione va proposta al giudice del fallimento e non all'Autorità cantonale di vigilanza;

  • richiamati gli art. 17 e 230 cpv. 1 LEF, 4 cpv. 1 LPR;

pronuncia:

  1. L'istanza 5 marzo 1999 è irricevibile.

  2. Gli atti sono trasmessi d'ufficio alla Pretura del Distretto di __________ per competenza.

  3. Intimazione: -dott.

-dott. Pretura di __________

Per la Camera di esecuzione e fallimenti del Tribunale d’appello

quale autorità di vigilanza

Il presidente La segretaria

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Keywords

bankruptcylack of assetscompetencesupervisory authoritysuspensioninadmissibilitytransmission

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether a request for suspension of bankruptcy proceedings for lack of assets was admissible before the cantonal supervisory authority.

Extracted holding

The request was not admissible before the supervisory authority because a suspension request under Art. 230 para. 1 SchKG must be submitted to the bankruptcy judge.

Extracted reasoning

The filing was not a closure request but a suspension request for lack of assets. Under Art. 230 para. 1 SchKG, such a request belongs before the bankruptcy judge, not the cantonal supervisory authority; the filing had to be forwarded ex officio to the competent district court.

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