THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.
47. A bankruptcy notice shall be served, and Service of service thereof shall be proved in the like manner as notice. is by these Rules prescribed for the service of a R143. creditor's petition.
Forms 7, 16, 15.
48. When the court makes an order setting aside Setting aside the bankruptcy notice it may at the same time notice. declare that no act of bankruptcy has been committed R144. by the debtor under such notice.
Petitions
Form 9.
49.-(1) Where a petition is presented by a Description debtor he shall, besides inserting therein his name and address and description, and his address at the date when of debtor. the petition is presented, further describe himself R146. as lately residing or carrying on business at the address or several addresses, as the case may be, at Form 3. which he has incurred debts and liabilities which at the date of the petition remain unpaid or unsatisfied.
(2) Where a petition is presented against a debtor who resides or carries on business at an address other than the address at which the debtor was residing or carrying on business at the time of contracting the debt or liability in respect of which the petition is presented, the petitioning creditor, in addition to stating in the petition the description of the debtor. us of his then present address and description, shall, in the petition, describe the debtor as lately residing or carrying on business at the address at which he was residing or carrying on business when the debr or liability was incurred.
50. Every bankruptcy petition shall be attested. Attestation, If it be attested in the Colony the witness must be R148.
a solicitor or the Official Receiver or Registrar. If it
be attested out of the Colony the witness must be a judge or magistrate or a British consul or vice-
consul or a notary public.
51.-(1) Upon the presentation of a petition Deposit by either by the debtor or by a creditor the petitioner petitioner. shall deposit with the Official Receiver the sum of one R149. hundred dollars, and such further sum (if any) as the court may from time to time direct, to cover the fees and expenses to be incurred by the Official Receiver; and no petition shall be received unless the receipt of the Official Receiver for the deposit payable on the presentation of the petition is pro- duced to the Registrar.
(2) The Official Receiver shall account for the money so deposited to the creditor, or, as the case may be, to the debtor's estate, and any sum so paid by a petitioning creditor shall be repaid to such creditor (except and so far as such deposit may be required by reason of insufficiency of assets for the payment of the fees of and expenses incurred by the Official Receiver) out of the proceeds of the estate in the order of priority prescribed by section 37 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance.
in Land
52. When a petition is filed the Official Receiver Registration may register a memorial of the petition in the Land of petition Office or in any District Land Office against any office or property registered therein in the name of the debtor. District or in any alias of his, or in his tong name, or in the Land Office. name of any tong in which he has any share or interest, or in the name or names of any wife or concubine of the debtor. This provision shall so far as the nature of the case will admit apply in the case of any person carrying on business in a name or style other than his own.
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