CAP. 6]
Forms 37. Bankruptcy Rules.
Bankruptcy.
25. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum of creditors is not present or represented, the meeting shall be adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and place or to such other day as the chairman may appoint, being not less than seven nor more than twenty-one days after the day first appointed.
26. The chairman of every meeting shall cause minutes of the proceedings at the meeting to be drawn up and fairly entered in a record kept for that purpose and the minutes shall be signed by him or by the chairman of the next ensuing meeting.
27. No person acting under either a general or a special proxy shall vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place himself or his partner or employer in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the debtor otherwise than as a creditor rateably with the other creditors of the debtor: Provided that where any person holds special proxies to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee he may use the said proxies and vote accordingly.
28. The vote of the trustee or of his partner, clerk, solicitor or solicitor's clerk, either as creditor or as proxy for a creditor, shall not be reckoned in the majority required for passing any resolution affecting the conduct of the trustee.
29. These rules may be cited as the Meetings of Creditors Rules.
Regulations— Fraser, vol. 3, p. 1141.
PROOF OF DEBTS RULES.
(Cap. 6, section 36). (Ordinance No. 10 of 1931).
[1st January, 1932.]
Proof in ordinary cases.
1. Every creditor shall prove his debt as soon as may be after the making of a receiving order.
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