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Natural-person voluntary surrender of an estate: national statutory gateway

Focused component: The voluntary-surrender portion of reviewed P05 D09 only.

Fresh research access: 26 October 2026 PDT; 27 October 2026 UTC and SAST. Exact source-opening clock times were not logged and are unknown.

Provenance: Regular Chat with public-source browsing. No model-power, Pro-tier, quota-reset, measured-ranking or independent-review claim is made. P06, P10, P13, P15 and P16 remain unreviewed and are not adopted as premises. P11’s scoped review supplies no insolvency premise.

Disposition: The core voluntary-surrender provisions and immediate consequences were read in the official Insolvency Act compilation and relevant amending Acts. This establishes a substantive national gateway. Important gaps remain: the complete current High Court procedural package, the current §149 jurisdiction text, the operative Master-report requirement, applicable local directives, and a fully opened controlling judgment on the identified constitutional/employee-notice issue. Those gaps prevent treating this as a filing-ready or fully current country-level statement.

G1. Statutory gateway, applicant, court and financial requirements

G1.1 What voluntary surrender is

Under Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 §3(1), an insolvent debtor or authorised agent may petition the court to accept surrender of the debtor’s estate for the benefit of creditors. The section also permits an application by a person entrusted with administering the estate of a deceased debtor or a debtor incapable of managing their own affairs. Partnership surrender has a separate statutory branch and is outside this pass.

The court does not merely approve a debtor’s preference to stop paying. Section 6(1) requires it to be satisfied about statutory procedure, insolvency, sufficient realisable property to cover the relevant costs from the free residue, and advantage to creditors. Even then, the provision says the court may accept surrender and make a sequestration order. C_ZA-P17-C002–C008.

Primary text: https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1936-024.pdf, §§3–6, zero-based PDF P3–P5, internal printed pages 4–6. Justice+2

G1.2 Scope of “debtor” and “insolvent estate”

The Act’s definition of a debtor covers a person, partnership or estate capable of sequestration but excludes a body corporate, company or association capable of liquidation under the relevant company law. An “insolvent estate” is an estate under sequestration.

This pass addresses a living natural person’s estate. It does not transfer the surrender mechanism to companies, business-rescue proceedings or ordinary contractual payment plans. C002. Justice+1

Deceased-estate boundary

Section 3(1) supplies standing to the person entrusted with administering a deceased insolvent debtor’s estate. That does not establish that every insolvent deceased estate should be brought to sequestration. The Administration of Estates Act supplies a separate insolvent-estate administration route, but its material body could not be opened here. The deceased-estate branch therefore remains limited to the §3 standing point; no full executor, estate-distribution or sequestration-choice conclusion is made. C003, C051.

G1.3 Joint estate of spouses married in community of property

Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 §17(4)(a) requires an application for surrender of a joint estate to be made by both spouses. A spouse cannot assume that the joint estate is treated as their separate estate merely because the debts were incurred in their name.

Separate estates and the potential effect of Insolvency Act §21 on a solvent spouse’s property are different questions. C004, C037.

Primary text: https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1984-088.pdf, §17(4)(a), zero PDF P4; printed page label not independently verified. Justice

G1.4 Competent court and territorial nexus

The Insolvency Act’s definition of “Court” points to the superior-court jurisdiction governed by §§149 and 151. The ordinary voluntary-surrender application is therefore a High Court matter, not the Magistrates’ Court administration-order process researched separately in P16.

The official judicial training paper examined here describes §149’s connecting factors as domicile or property at the filing date, or ordinary residence or business during the preceding 12 months. However, the actual §149 page in the official compilation did not render. The complete current wording, provisos, transfer/convenience qualifications and application to a particular division are therefore not certified in P17. C005.

The training paper is educational commentary, not a judgment or substitute for the operative jurisdiction provision: https://www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za/index.php/speeches-and-conferences/category/14-conference-papers?download=107%3Ainsolvency-law, zero P2/internal page 3. Supreme Court of Appeal

G1.5 Actual insolvency, not cash-flow difficulty alone

Section 6 requires the estate to be insolvent. On the sources read, this is actual or balance-sheet insolvency: liabilities exceed the legally relevant value of assets. Temporary inability to pay a bill does not necessarily establish that test.

A debtor whose assets exceed liabilities but who lacks ready cash may be in financial distress without satisfying the voluntary-surrender insolvency predicate. Conversely, estimated values cannot be accepted at face value merely because a schedule is signed. C006, C010. Justice+1

G1.6 Sufficient property to cover sequestration costs

Section 6(1) separately requires realisable property of sufficient value to defray all costs of sequestration payable out of the free residue.

“Free residue” excludes the portion of the estate subject to a preference arising from a special mortgage, legal hypothec, pledge or right of retention. Gross property value is therefore not automatically available to meet ordinary sequestration costs or unsecured creditors. C007, C009. Justice+1

A debtor can be insolvent yet fail this cost-assets requirement. A future salary estimate is not automatically a substitute for proof of realisable property and an adequately evidenced benefit to creditors.

G1.7 Advantage to creditors and discretion

The court must be satisfied that sequestration will be to the advantage of creditors. The voluntary-surrender wording must not be replaced by the differently framed tests applicable to provisional or compulsory sequestration.

A positive arithmetic remainder is evidence relevant to the inquiry, not the judicial conclusion itself. The court must assess the actual estate, realisable values, costs, creditor claims and practical distribution prospects. No fixed national minimum dividend percentage was established in §6 or any final instrument read in this pass. C008, C011–C012. Justice

The judicial training paper discusses differing decisions and local approaches to small dividends and valuations. P17 does not convert a figure mentioned in that paper into a national statutory minimum, current tariff or universally binding acceptance test. Nor is the paper treated as a controlling judgment. C055.

G1.8 Valuation and evidence

Under §4(4), the Master may require valuation of property by a sworn appraiser or another person designated by the Master. The statement of affairs must supply the statutory financial particulars and be verified by affidavit.

Evidence must distinguish:

• estimated market value from likely realisation proceeds;
• encumbered value from free residue;
• realisation costs from general administration costs;
• secured claims from concurrent or preferential claims;
• existing assets from hoped-for future recoveries; and
• actual obligations from disputed or contingent claims.

The detailed model below is an analytical illustration of these distinctions, not a prescribed court form or valuation standard. C009–C012, C019. Justice

G2. Publication, notice, statement, inspection, hearing and failure

G2.1 Gazette and newspaper publication

Section 4(1) requires a notice substantially in First Schedule Form A:

• in the Government Gazette; and
• in a newspaper circulating in the district where the debtor resides, or, for a trader, where the principal place of business is situated.

Publication must be not more than 30 days and not less than 14 days before the date identified for applying to court. C013–C014.

Primary text: https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1936-024.pdf, §4(1), zero P3/internal page 4; First Schedule Form A, zero P76/internal page 77. Justice+1

The statute uses “days,” not “business days,” in this provision. The general time-computation statute and current local court calendar were not fully read, so P17 does not state an actual last publication date or assume holiday extensions.

G2.2 Notice to creditors

Within seven days from Gazette publication, the debtor must deliver or post a copy of the notice to every creditor whose address is known or can be ascertained. This is not restricted to the creditors the debtor expects to vote favourably.

The current §4(2) wording was substituted by Insolvency Second Amendment Act 69 of 2002, effective 1 January 2003. C015.

Primary amendment: https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/a69-020.pdf, §1 substituting §4(2), zero P1/printed Gazette page 2; §10 commencement at zero P4/printed Gazette page 8. South African Government+1

G2.3 Employees and registered trade unions

Within the same seven-day period, §4(2)(b) requires a copy to be posted to every registered trade union that, to the debtor’s knowledge, represents employees.

Employees must receive notice through the statutory workplace-display sequence:

1. a noticeboard accessible to employees inside the debtor’s premises;
2. if employees do not have access inside, a place at the front gate where they congregate; or
3. failing that, the front door of the premises from which the debtor conducted business immediately before surrender.

C016–C017. South African Government

The exact constitutional treatment of employee categories and the effect of inadequate notice remain a judicial-authority gap in this pass. No domestic-worker exclusion is inferred from the business-premises wording. The identified Constitutional Court final judgment was not successfully obtained, so no majority ratio is claimed.

G2.4 SARS notice

Section 4(2)(b) also requires a copy to be posted to the South African Revenue Service within seven days after Gazette publication. This is a notice requirement, not a tax clearance, tax discharge or confirmation that a tax liability is included in the unsecured dividend calculation. C018. South African Government

G2.5 Statement of affairs

Section 4(3) requires the debtor to lodge a statement of affairs in duplicate with the Master, substantially in First Schedule Form B, containing the prescribed particulars and verified by affidavit.

The statutory Form B is evidence of the required financial disclosure structure. The version printed in the old compilation contains historical currency/layout features and is not presented as a modern completed filing template. C019. Justice+1

G2.6 Local copy and inspection

Section 4(5) provides for a further copy at the local magistrate’s office in specified circumstances where the debtor resides or trades in a district without a Master’s office. The text contains historical district exceptions. P17 does not silently erase those exceptions or declare a universal modern local-filing rule.

Section 4(6) requires the statement to lie open for creditors’ inspection during office hours for 14 days from the date stated in the notice. C020–C021. Justice

The inspection period, the 14–30-day publication window and the seven-day creditor/employee/SARS notice period have different triggers. They are not one common clock.

G2.7 Master’s report and court documents

Section 3(3) allows the court to examine the petitioner or another person concerning the petition. Sections 4 and 6 supply the statutory disclosure and satisfaction requirements.

The current Uniform Rules PDF could not be opened. P17 therefore does not certify the precise current rule governing:

• furnishing the court application to the Master;
• the Master’s report;
• report-filing time;
• affidavits and annexures;
• proof of delivery;
• the opposition timetable; or
• a particular division’s filing pack.

Those are material unresolved procedural requirements, not optional omissions. C022–C023.

G2.8 Creditor participation and opposition

Publication and inspection provide creditors an opportunity to assess the application. Creditor opposition can challenge:

• actual insolvency;
• valuation;
• available free residue;
• cost estimates;
• omitted assets or liabilities;
• notice compliance; or
• asserted creditor advantage.

Section 6 does not make every creditor’s consent a prerequisite. Equally, absence of opposition does not relieve the court of its statutory satisfaction requirements. The exact opposition mechanics remain governed by the unread current court rules and local practice. C024. Justice

G2.9 Defective notice is not automatically harmless

Section 157(1) prevents a formal defect or irregularity from invalidating an act unless it causes substantial injustice that the court cannot remedy. It does not establish that every premature publication, missed employee notice or incomplete statement is a curable formality.

Whether the defect is formal, whether injustice occurred and whether it is remediable remain judicial questions. P17 did not obtain the full controlling judgment chain resolving the identified notice scenarios. C025. Justice

G2.10 Limited effect of publication before an order

Publication of the surrender notice restricts the sale of estate property already attached under a writ or similar process, subject to the statutory knowledge and authorised-sale qualifications. It is not a universal suspension of every lawsuit, demand, interest charge or collection communication.

Section 5 also permits the Master to appoint a curator bonis to take possession and control pending the court outcome and the Master’s directions. C026–C027. Justice

The old compilation’s monetary division between Master- and court-authorised sales was not independently brought current. No present rand threshold for that exception is published here.

G2.11 Withdrawal of the published notice

After publication, the debtor cannot simply withdraw the notice privately.

Section 7 requires:

• the Master’s written consent;
• the statutory good-faith and good-cause conditions; and
• publication of the withdrawal and consent in the Gazette and the same newspaper.

Only then is the notice treated as withdrawn in the prescribed way. C028. Justice

G2.12 Refusal, lapse and costs

Under §6(2), the notice lapses if:

• the court does not accept the surrender;
• the notice is properly withdrawn; or
• the application is not made within 14 days after the date advertised for it.

Where a curator bonis has taken possession, restoration of the property is subject to provision for the relevant costs to the Master’s satisfaction. C029. Justice

Section 8(f) separately identifies failures involving the published notice, statement or advertised application date as possible acts of insolvency. The 14-day lapse rule is therefore not a licence to disregard the advertised hearing date. P17 identifies that adverse boundary but does not research a creditor’s subsequent compulsory-sequestration application. C030. Justice

No current legal-fee, publication, valuation or trustee-cost tariff was verified. A failed application is not represented as cost-free or as producing an automatic refund; exact adverse-cost liability requires the court rules, any order and the actual retainer. C031.

G3. Immediate order consequences and limited rehabilitation boundary

G3.1 Vesting and control

A sequestration order divests the insolvent of the estate. It initially vests in the Master, and then in the trustee when appointed. The estate includes property at sequestration, including attached property or proceeds still subject to the statutory rule, and certain property acquired during sequestration, subject to §23 exceptions. C032, C036.

Primary text: https://www.justice.gov.za/legislation/acts/1936-024.pdf, §§20–23, zero P12–P16/internal pages 13–17. Justice+3

This is statutory estate control, not permission for an ordinary debt adviser to take ownership or beneficial use of the debtor’s assets.

G3.2 Provisional trustee, later appointment and security

Section 18 permits the Master to appoint a provisional trustee after sequestration, subject to the required security and the Master’s directions. The Act also provides for creditor participation in trustee election and the Master’s confirmation/appointment process.

The precise current wording of every permanent-trustee appointment, certificate and security requirement was not fully recovered: one relevant page failed. P17 therefore does not give an actual appointee, security amount, bank account title or final professional-permission conclusion. C033, C043. Justice+1

G3.3 Court appointment is not an NCR credential

A provisional trustee or trustee acts under the Insolvency Act and the Master/court appointment structure. NCR debt-counsellor status, PDA registration, debt-collector registration or an ordinary attorney retainer does not substitute for that appointment. Nor does insolvency appointment automatically confer every unrelated financial or professional permission. C034.

G3.4 Proceedings and execution

Section 20 has broader consequences than the pre-order notice:

• civil proceedings by or against the insolvent are generally stayed until a trustee is appointed, subject to the statutory exceptions;
• the sheriff, once aware of sequestration, must stay execution unless the court otherwise directs; and
• the trustee and creditors must then use the applicable insolvency procedures.

This is not a statement that every proceeding ends permanently or that every secured creditor loses its rights. C035. Justice+1

G3.5 Solvent spouse’s separate property

Section 21 can temporarily vest the solvent spouse’s property in the Master/trustee as part of the statutory investigation and release mechanism. The trustee must release property when the statutory entitlement predicates are proved.

The provision is distinct from a joint estate in community of property. P17 does not determine the ownership of any spouse’s asset, the validity of an antenuptial contract or the complete release procedure. C037. Justice+1

G3.6 Secured rights are not automatically cancelled

A mortgage, pledge, legal hypothec or retention right does not disappear merely because the estate is surrendered. Section 47, for example, preserves specified retention/hypothec rights where property is delivered to the trustee with the required notice and proof.

The realisation, secured-cost allocation, deficiency and security-release rules are more detailed than this gateway. They remain deferred, particularly because later financial-sector legislation amended portions of the secured-asset regime. C038, C050. Justice+1

G3.7 Employment, earnings and necessities

Section 23 permits an insolvent to follow a profession, occupation or employment, with specified restrictions on certain trading activities and requirements for trustee consent. It also imposes recordkeeping and assistance obligations.

Under §23(5), the trustee may recover the portion of post-sequestration earnings that the Master considers unnecessary for the support of the insolvent and dependants. This is neither automatic confiscation of all wages nor an entitlement to retain all future earnings. C039. Justice

Section 23 separately protects certain benefits and recoveries, subject to its exact wording. P17 does not supply a comprehensive exempt-property or income schedule. C040. Justice

Before the second creditors’ meeting, §79 permits the trustee, with the Master’s consent, to make a support allowance from the estate for the insolvent and dependants. It is a controlled power, not a fixed household allowance or minimum guaranteed salary. C041. Justice

G3.8 Creditors must prove claims

Listing a creditor in the statement of affairs is not automatically the same as an admitted claim for distribution. Section 44 provides the claim-proof process, including affidavits and the information required for secured claims. Creditor meetings and the proof/admission process remain subject to the Act and current directions. C042. Justice

G3.9 Earlier dispositions may be scrutinised

Sections 26, 29, 30 and 31 provide distinct grounds concerning dispositions without value, voidable preferences, undue preferences and collusive dealings. They require their own facts, timing, insolvency and statutory predicates.

Surrender does not automatically reverse every earlier transaction. Equally, an applicant cannot assume that a recent transfer, preference or asset disposal will be ignored. No avoidance claim, limitation calculation or asset-protection strategy is given here. C044. Justice+1

G3.10 No immediate discharge

The sequestration order is not itself an immediate discharge of debts. Rehabilitation is a separate legal event with separate routes and conditions. C045.

Section 127A contains a deemed-rehabilitation rule after ten years from sequestration, unless the court orders otherwise on an interested person’s timely application with notice. That is a boundary statement only, not a complete rehabilitation guide or prediction of an individual date. C046. Justice

Section 129 provides that rehabilitation generally terminates sequestration, discharges debts due before sequestration or arising from an earlier cause, except debt arising out of the insolvent’s fraud, and removes specified disabilities, subject to the section and conditions of the order. C047. Justice

The portions read also preserve, among other things, certain composition rights, trustee/Master duties concerning the estate, property already vested and not yet distributed, and a surety’s liability. The continuation of §129 was not completely read, so this is not an exhaustive discharge-exception list. C048. Justice

G3.11 Review of Master decisions

Section 151 supplies a court-review gateway for a person aggrieved by a Master’s decision, subject to notice and the statutory procedure. Section 151bis addresses costs in that context. P17 does not certify the full current High Court appeal/review timetable, standing for every decision or an actual costs outcome. C049. Justice

G4. Conditional calculations

All costs, values and claims below are stipulated hypothetical inputs—not legal tariffs, appraisals, admitted claims or court-approved amounts. No fixed minimum dividend is inferred.

Calculation A — unencumbered assets and a possible concurrent dividend

Assume:

• all assets are realisable and unencumbered: R160,000;
• all pre-existing liabilities are concurrent claims: R300,000;
• sequestration/administration costs payable from free residue: R40,000;
• those costs are not already included in the R300,000 creditor total;
• no preferential claims or other deductions apply.

Balance-sheet comparison

R300,000 liabilities − R160,000 assets = R140,000 shortfall

Distribution model

R160,000 free residue − R40,000 costs = R120,000 distributable

R120,000 ÷ R300,000 × 100 = 40%

The model produces 40 cents per rand before any unmodelled change. It does not prove statutory advantage, acceptable valuation, admissible claims or that the court will accept surrender. C006–C012, C056.

Calculation B — encumbered property and a downside scenario

Assume:

• property realisation: R600,000;
• property-specific sale costs: R40,000;
• secured amount: R520,000;
• other unencumbered realisable assets: R20,000;
• separate free-residue administration costs: R50,000;
• concurrent claims: R250,000;
• no preferential claims;
• the R40,000 sale costs and R50,000 administration costs are distinct and not double-counted.

Base case

R600,000 − R40,000 = R560,000 net property proceeds

R560,000 − R520,000 secured claim = R40,000 surplus

R40,000 + R20,000 = R60,000 free residue

R60,000 − R50,000 = R10,000 concurrent distribution

R10,000 ÷ R250,000 × 100 = 4%

Downside: property realises only R550,000

R550,000 − R40,000 = R510,000 net property proceeds

R520,000 − R510,000 = R10,000 secured shortfall

Assuming solely for the model that the shortfall is an admissible concurrent claim:

R250,000 + R10,000 = R260,000 concurrent claims

No surplus comes from the property. Free residue is only R20,000:

R20,000 − R50,000 = −R30,000 cost shortfall

There is no positive dividend pool on those assumptions. The model fails the cost-coverage premise, quite apart from creditor advantage. It does not decide the actual security priority or treatment of a real deficiency. C007–C012, C038, C056.

Calculation C — positive but minimal estimated dividend

Assume:

• unencumbered realisable assets: R90,000;
• free-residue costs: R80,000;
• concurrent claims: R1,000,000;
• no other priorities or adjustments.

R90,000 − R80,000 = R10,000

R10,000 ÷ R1,000,000 × 100 = 1%

A positive one-cent-per-rand estimate does not compel acceptance. Section 6 still requires the court to be satisfied of advantage to creditors and permits refusal. There is no verified national “1% accepted” or “20% required” rule in this pass. C008, C011–C012, C056.

Calculation D — statutory timetable, kept symbolic

Let:

• P = the Gazette publication date, with the newspaper also published on that date in this hypothetical;
• H = advertised application date;
• I = beginning of the inspection period stated in the notice.

The statutory requirements are:

• publication no more than 30 and no less than 14 days before H;
• creditor, union, employee and SARS notice within seven days from Gazette publication;
• creditor inspection for 14 days from I.

P17 does not convert these periods to “clear business days,” determine included/excluded endpoints or supply a live hearing date. The current Interpretation Act, Uniform Rules and local calendar application remain unresolved. C014–C021, C053.

G4. Fourteen fictional workflows

G5. Reviewed P05 D09 crosswalk

Source and evidence register — C_ZA-P17-S001 onward

All fresh accesses occurred on 26 October 2026 PDT / 27 October 2026 UTC. Exact opening times are unknown. Internal page numbers below are those of the PDF compilation, not Gazette pages unless explicitly stated.

Source hierarchy: S001, S003–S006 are the substantive legislative evidence. S002/S014/S016 are metadata. S007 is educational commentary. S008 is official guidance. The remaining entries preserve failed or excluded candidates; they do not prove substantive rules.

Complete atomic claim register — C_ZA-P17-C001 onward

All claims are national and bounded. A066, A097 and A098 remain unaccepted. Pinpoints refer to the full URLs in the source register.

Complete granular coverage register

G1 — Statute, applicant, forum and financial gateway: 20 rows

G2 — Notices, documents, hearing and withdrawal: 18 rows

G3 — Order, asset control, creditors and rehabilitation: 20 rows

G4 — Fictional workflows: 14 rows

G5 — Reviewed gap and currentness: 6 rows

Explicitly deferred families

Nine-province and local-division register

National legislation does not clear every province, High Court seat, Master’s office or local practice.

Evidence-backed opportunities

Search/read audit

The research used the Justice and gov.za statutory repositories, official Master/SARS materials, the SCA’s published judicial education paper and the Constitutional Court’s public catalogue.

Material search themes were:

• Insolvency Act §§3–7, 149, 157 and First Schedule Forms A/B;
• voluntary surrender and creditor advantage;
• employee, union and SARS notice amendments;
• joint-estate surrender under Matrimonial Property Act §17;
• Uniform Rule 6 and the Master’s report;
• current Master publication directives;
• later financial-sector amendments;
• statutory rehabilitation effects.

Read bounds and failures

• The Justice compilation initially opened. Multiple page images then supplied the material statute text even though some later section/page requests failed.
• The original Gazette alternate exceeded retrieval limits.
• Current Uniform Rules, Master directive, Interpretation Act and Administration of Estates Act bodies were not obtained.
• The Constitutional Court catalogue was obtained, but its final-opinion link failed. A pre-hearing media document was identified and excluded as merits authority.
• Search results containing pleadings, private-party argument or unrelated cases were not used as final judicial holdings.
• No complete later-amendment, current-judgment or all-divisions citator was performed.
• No named estate, applicant, trustee, provider, creditor, company, account, property, licence or docket was investigated.
• No form, application, notice, complaint, record request, contact, payment, account action, site change or publication occurred.
• No coordinator files were written.

Counts and researcher self-check

Self-check

• Actual insolvency is separated from cash-flow distress.
• Costs payable from free residue are separated from secured proceeds.
• Realisation costs are not counted twice in the illustrations.
• No fixed minimum dividend, trustee tariff or current court-fee estimate is invented.
• A positive percentage is not equated with creditor advantage.
• Court discretion remains visible.
• Gazette/newspaper publication, seven-day notices and 14-day inspection have separate triggers.
• No ordinary-day period is converted to business days without authority.
• Employee, union and SARS notice requirements are included.
• The failed constitutional judgment retrieval is not described as a merits read.
• A Master’s report is held as a material procedural gap, not dismissed as unnecessary.
• Pre-order publication is not called a universal stay.
• Withdrawal requires the statutory consent and publication process.
• The post-advertised lapse provision is not described as a grace period.
• Estate vesting, trustee appointment and professional permission remain distinct.
• Earnings and dependant needs are not treated as an all-or-nothing rule.
• Surrender is not immediate discharge.
• Rehabilitation exclusions are not claimed to be exhaustive.
• No P16 administration-order result or other unreviewed component is adopted.
• All local, foreign, parent and A066/A097/A098 holds remain.

Exact next primary-source question

What is the complete currently operative High Court and Master procedural package for a voluntary-surrender application in the relevant division—including Insolvency Act §149, Uniform Rule requirements for the Master’s report and service, operative publication directives, time computation, and the controlling final judgments on employee notice, defective publication, valuation and creditor advantage?

Final P17 disposition: The voluntary-surrender portion of P05 D09 moves from wholly deferred to partial substantive national coverage. The statutory applicant, financial, notice and immediate-effect gateway is established with material procedural, judicial-authority, currentness and local-practice gaps expressly retained. No actual surrender eligibility, court order, dividend, discharge or country/parent/A066/A097/A098 acceptance is determined.

END C_ZA PASS-17