Bankruptcy Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. .

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RULE UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1924-1954.

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I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Rule under the Bankruptcy Act 1924-1954.

Dated this fifteenth day of February, 1955.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) J. A. Spicer

Attorney-General.

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Amendment of the Bankruptcy Rules.

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Rule 66 of the Bankruptcy Rules is amended—

Fees and percentages.

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-rule (5.) the word “those” and inserting in its stead the word “these”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-rule:—

“(6.) Where—

(a) an official receiver, not being an official receiver remunerated by fees and commission only, succeeds as trustee of an estate an official receiver so remunerated; and

(b) in pursuance of sub-section (8.) of section 133 of the Act, the Court orders the remuneration of the last-mentioned official receiver to be increased,

the amount of the fee payable to the first-mentioned official receiver under item 5 of Table B in the Third Schedule to these Rules is the amount calculated in accordance with that item less the amount of the increase so ordered by the Court.”.

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Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

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Statutory Rules 1934, No. 77, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 34 and 122; 1936, No. 101; 1937, No. 111; 1939, No. 41; 1940, No. 212; 1941, Nos. 12 and 55; 1942, No. 6; 1949, No. 100; 1953, Nos. 71, 79 and 101; and 1954, No 131.

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Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by A. J. Arthur at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.

230.—Price 3d. 9/19.1.1955.