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An officer of the Insolvency Service of the United Kingdom, the Official Receiver (OR) is an officer of the court to which he is attached. The OR is therefore answerable to the courts for carrying out the courts' orders and for fulfilling his duties under law. He also acts on directions, instructions and guidance from the Service's Inspector General or, less often, from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Usage examples of "official receiver".
He also knew that once he had opened that door and looked, he might just as well pack the whole thing in - go back to bed and face the shop in the morning, and every other morning afterwards, until either the Official Receiver moved in, or he got the DT's or had his first cardiac, or whatever happens to old war-weary pilots with nowhere to go.
It was rather as if the affairs of the deceased had come under the scrutiny of an official receiver, prepared at the slightest sign of careless book-keeping to order the corpse alive again to show cause why it should not be committed for contempt.
In fact, Archer accepted The Hour of the Dragon, but the publisher went bankrupt and his assets, including Howards novel, were put into the hands of the Official Receiver.