187Receiving orders

1. If any amount constitutes, by virtue of section 184, a charge on any property, the Family Court or the District Court may make such order as it thinks fit, either for the sale of that property or of any part thereof, or for the appointment of Public Trust or any other person to be the receiver of the whole or any part of that property, or of the rents, profits, or income of the property, or of any part of that property: provided that neither Public Trust nor any other person shall, unless that person consents, be appointed under this section as a receiver.

2. Where any property has been sold under any such order, the High Court may, on the application of the purchaser or the Commissioner, make an order vesting the property in the purchaser.

3. Every such vesting order shall have the same effect as if all persons entitled to the property had been free from all disability and had duly executed all proper conveyances, transfers, and assignments of the property for such estate or interest as is specified in the order; and in the case of land which is subject to the Land Transfer Act 2017 the purchaser's title thereto shall be registered accordingly.

4. The court may, at any time after making a receiving order, vary or discharge the order.

5. A receiving order shall expire on the payment by the liable person of all arrears due under this Act, together with the payment by the liable person in advance of all money to become payable under this Act during the period of 6 months from the date of the cancellation of the receiving order.