73.— (1) A vote held under section 72(5) shall be held in accordance with this section and regulations under section 74.

(2) The voting rights exercisable by a creditor at a creditors’ meeting shall be proportionate to the amount of the debt due by the debtor to the creditor on the day the protective certificate is issued.

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(4) A creditor who is a connected person of the debtor may not vote in favour of a proposal for a Debt Settlement Arrangement at a creditors’ meeting.

(5) Subject to any regulations made under section 74 relating to proxies, for the purposes of this section, only the person who appears to the personal insolvency practitioner to be the owner of the debt (or an agent acting on behalf of that person) shall be entitled to receive notices required to be sent to a creditor under this Chapter or to vote at the creditors’ meeting.

F71[(6) A proposal for a Debt Settlement Arrangement shall be considered as having been approved by a creditors’ meeting held under this Chapter where creditors representing not less than 65 per cent of the total amount of the debtor’s debts due to the creditors participating in the meeting and voting have voted in favour of the proposal.]

(7) F71[Where a vote is held under section 72(5) and no creditor votes,] the proposed Debt Settlement Arrangement shall be deemed to have been approved under this section.