BANKRUPTCY.
No. 10 of 1931.
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No. 10 of 1931.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to bankruptcy.
[1st January, 1932.]
PART I.
[Originally No. 10 of 1931.
No. 23 of 1933. No. 10 of 1936.
Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
Short title AND INTERPRETATION.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931.
2. In this Ordinance-
(a) "Affidavit" includes statutory declaration, affirmation, and attestation on honour;
4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59, s. 167.
(b) "Available act of bankruptcy" means any act of bankruptcy available for a bankruptcy petition at the date of the presentation of the petition on which the receiving order is made;
(c) "Bailiff" includes any officer charged with the execution of a writ or other process;
(d) "Court" means the Supreme Court sitting in its bankruptcy jurisdiction;
(e) "Debt provable in bankruptcy" or "provable debt" includes any debt or liability by this Ordinance made provable in bankruptcy;
(f) "Gazetted" means published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette;
(g) "Goods" includes all chattels personal;
(h) "Oath" includes affirmation, declaration, and attestation on honour;
(i) "Ordinary resolution" means a resolution decided by a majority in value of the creditors present, personally or by proxy, at a meeting of creditors and voting on the resolution;
* The rules formerly contained in the First, and Second Schedules to this Ordinance have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong.