Bankruptcy Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 101.

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RULES UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1924-1933.*

I, THE Deputy of the GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Rules under the Bankruptcy Act 1924-1933.

Dated this Twenty-ninth

day of July, 1936.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Attorney-General.

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Amendments of the Bankruptcy Rules. 

Amendment of the Third Schedule.

1. The Third Schedule to the Bankruptcy Rules is amended—

(a) by omitting the heading “Table A. Scale of Official Fees and Percentages.” and inserting in its stead the following heading:—

“Scale of Official Fees and Percentages.

Table A.”;

(b)by omitting from paragraph (a) of Item 1 of Table B the words “a percentage fixed within the limits of Table 1 of the Sixth Schedule by the creditors or an amount fixed in accordance with Table 2 of the Sixth Schedule by the Official Receiver” and inserting in their stead the words “a fee fixed in pursuance of Table 2 of the Sixth Schedule”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b)of Item 1 of Table B the words “commission, in addition to that under” and inserting in their stead the words “percentage, in addition to the fee fixed in pursuance of”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (c) of Item 1 of Table B the words “remuneration, in addition to the remuneration under paragraph (a) and (b)”, and inserting in their stead the words “percentage, in addition to the fee and percentage fixed in pursuance of paragraphs (a) and (b)”; and

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1936.

  Statutory Rules 1934, No. 77, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 34 and 122.

1991.—6/15.7.1936.—Price 3d.

(e) by adding at the end of Item 7 of Table B the following proviso:—

“Provided that the travelling expenses payable to an Official Receiver who is a permanent officer shall be in accordance with the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations, as varied from time to time by determinations of the Public Service Arbitrator.”.

Amendment of the Sixth Schedule.

2. The Sixth Schedule to the Bankruptcy Rules is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “Remuneration of Official Receivers by Fixed Sums” and inserting in their stead the words “Fees of Official Receivers” ; and

(b) by omitting the words “Maximum sum which may be fixed.”.

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