Bankruptcy Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No. 100.

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RULE UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1924-1948.*

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 1924-1948.

Dated this thirtieth day of November, 1949.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) H. V. EVATT

Attorney-General.

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Amendment of the Bankruptcy Rules. 

After Rule 121 of the Bankruptcy Rules the following rule is inserted:—

Increase in scale of solicitors’ costs.

“121a. For the purposes of rules 120 and 121 of these Rules, the amounts specified in the scale of solicitors’ costs set forth in the Second Schedule to these Rules shall, in respect of all work done or services performed by a solicitor on or after the date from which this rule takes effect, be deemed to be increased by one-third.”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1949.

  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; and 1942, No. 6.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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