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Allowance to
persons making discovery.
Inserting
without authority,
Money forfeit-
ed under this
Ordinance, how to be
sued for. And how applied.
What notices to be sent by post.
Proviso.
Petitions and other
proceedings in bank-
ruptcy, and copies
purporting to be sealed with the seal of the Court
admissible in evidence.
ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
to the assignees, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, and double the value of the estate so concealed: and any person who shall after such time voluntarily discover to the Court or to the assignees any part of such bankrupt's estate not before come to the knowledge of the assignees, shall be allowed five per centum thereupon, and such further reward as the assignees with the consent of the Court shall think fit; to be paid out of the estate recovered on such discovery.
177. Any person who shall insert or cause to be inserted in the Hongkong Government Gazette or in any newspaper any advertisement under this Ordinance, without authority or knowing the same to be false in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.
178. All sums of money forfeited under this Ordinance may be sued for by the Creditors' Assignee or such other person as the Court shall by order direct. And the money so recovered (the charges of suit being deducted) shall be paid over in such manner as the Court shall by General Order direct.
As to Notices and Advertisements.
179. All notices by this Ordinance or by General Order required to be served on any person shall be sent by post addressed to the last known place of business or abode of such person, subject to such regulations as to registration and otherwise as such General Orders shall direct, provided that this present section shall not apply to or affect notices by this Ordinance or by any General Order required to be personally served.
As to Evidence.
180. Any petition for adjudication, or arrangement, adjudication of bankruptcy, assignment, appointment of Official or Creditors' Assignee, certificate, deposition, or other proceeding or order in bankruptcy, or under any of the provisions of this Ordinance, appearing to be sealed with the seal of the Court under this Ordinance, or any writing purporting to be a copy of any such document and purporting to be so sealed, shall at all times, and on behalf of all persons, and whether for the purposes of this Ordinance or otherwise, be admitted in all Courts whatever as evidence of such documents respectively, and of such proceedings and orders.
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