Act Number: 31

Act Name: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

Year: 2016

Enactment Date: 2016-05-28

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner for maximisation of value of assets of such persons, to promote entrepreneurship, availability of credit and balance the interests of all the stakeholders including alteration in the order of priority of payment of Government dues and to establish an Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Department:

Section 214: Obligations of information utility.
    For the purposes of providing core services to any person, every information utility shall—
         (a) create and store financial information in a universally accessible format;
         (b) accept electronic submissions of financial information from persons who are under obligations to submit financial information under sub-section (1) of section 215, in such form and manner as may be specified by regulations;
         (c) accept, in specified form and manner, electronic submissions of financial information from persons who intend to submit such information;
         (d) meet such minimum service quality standards as may be specified by regulations;
         (e) get the information received from various persons authenticated by all concerned parties before storing such information;
         (f) provide access to the financial information stored by it to any person who intends to access such information in such manner as may be specified by regulations;
         (g) publish such statistical information as may be specified by regulations;
         (h) have inter-operatability with other information utilities.
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