ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
having respectively taken place or been made, and be deemed respectively records of such Court, without any further proof thereof; and no such copy shall be receivable in evidence unless the same appear to be so sealed, except where otherwise in this Ordinance specially provided: Provided that any document, petition or proceedings in any adjudication of insolvency filed or taken and entered of record under Ordinance No. 3 of 1846, purporting to have been sealed before the commencement of this Ordinance or purporting to have been signed by the person duly authorised to sign the same, and copies of the same, shall be received in all Courts whatever as evidence of such petition, document, or proceedings, and of such proceedings having taken place and entered of record.
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proceedings and give evidence thereof.
181. The proper officer of the Court shall, on the reasonable request of any bankrupt or arranging debtor, or of any creditor of such bankrupt having proved his debt, or of an arranging debtor, when the debt of the arranging creditor has been admitted in the petition or proved, or on the request of the attorney of any such bankrupt, debtor or creditor, produce and show to such bankrupt, debtors or creditors at such time as the Court shall direct, every petition for adjudication of bankruptcy, adjudication of bankruptcy, and petition for arrangement against or by such bankrupt, and all orders and proceedings under any such petition or adjudication, and the Court shall order the Official Assignee or officer of the Court, as the case may be, to permit such bankrupt, debtor or creditor to have inspection, at all reasonable times, of all books, papers and writings relating to the matters of such petition or adjudication, and the estate of bankrupt or debtor in the possession of the assignees or filed in Court in such matter and permit him to inspect and examine the same; and such Official Assignee, or such officer shall provide for any such bankrupt, debtor, creditor or attorney, requiring the same an office copy of such petition or other proceeding, books, papers and writings as aforesaid, or of such part thereof as shall be required, receiving such fee or sum or rate of charge as may be authorised in that behalf.
182. If the bankrupt shall not, if he were within the Colony at the date of the adjudication, within two calendar months after the advertisement of the bankruptcy in the Hongkong Government Gazette, or if he were elsewhere at the date of such adjudication, within twelve months after such advertisement, have commenced an action, suit or other proceeding to dispute or annul the petition for adjudication, and shall not have prosecuted
If bankrupt do not dispute the petition the Gazette to be conclusive evidence of bankruptcy as against the bankrupt