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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 Short title. Ordinance, 1931.

2. In this Ordinance-

Interpreta.

tion.

(a) "Affidavit "includes statutory declaration, affirmation 4 & 5 Geo. 5, and attestation on honour;

c. 59, s. 167.

means any act of

(b) "Available act of bankruptcy bankruptcy available for a bankruptcy petition at the date of the presentation of the petition on which the receiving order is made;

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(c). Bailiff "

includes any officer charged with the execu- tion 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;

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"Gazetted

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Government Gazette;

means published in the Hong Kong

(g) "Goods" includes all chattels personal;

(h) "Oath" includes affirmation, declaration and attesta- tion 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.