Bankruptcy.
authorized by the court, may employ a solicitor with or without counsel. No solicitor or counsel shall be allowed to take part in the examination on behalf of the debtor.
(6) If a trustee is appointed before the conclusion of the examination, he may take part therein.
(7) The court may put such questions to the debtor as it may think expedient.
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(8) The debtor shall be examined upon oath and it shall be his duty to answer all such questions as the court may put or allow to be put to him. Such notes of the examination as the court thinks proper shall be taken down either in shorthand or longhand and they or a transcript thereof shall be read over either to or by the debtor and signed by him and may thereafter, save as in this Ordinance provided, [See s. 141], be used in evidence against him; they shall also be open to the inspection of any creditor at all reasonable times upon payment of the prescribed fee.
(9) When the court is of opinion that the affairs of the debtor have been sufficiently investigated, it shall by order declare that his examination is concluded, but such order shall not be made until after the day appointed for the first meeting of creditors.
(10) Where the debtor is a lunatic or suffers from any such mental or physical affliction or disability as in the opinion of the court makes him unfit to attend his public examination, or is absent from the Colony, the court may make an order dispensing with such examination or directing that the debtor be examined on such terms, in such manner and at such place as to the court seems expedient.
Compositions and schemes of arrangement.
20. (1) Where a debtor intends to make a proposal for a composition in satisfaction of his debts or a proposal for a scheme of arrangement of his affairs, he shall, within four days of submitting his statement of affairs or within such time thereafter as the Official Receiver may fix, lodge with the Official Receiver a proposal in writing, signed by him, embodying the terms of the composition or scheme which he is desirous of submitting for the consideration of his creditors.