CAP. 6]
Bankruptcy.
[r. 12 cont.] voting at any meeting, to require the creditor to give up the security for the benefit of the creditors generally on payment of the value so estimated, with an addition thereto of twenty per cent: Provided that where a creditor has put a value on such security he may, at any time before he has been required to give up such security as aforesaid, correct such valuation by a new proof and deduct such new value from his debt, but in that case such addition of twenty per cent shall not be made if the trustee requires the security to be given up.
Forms 50, 51. Bankruptcy Rules.
13. If a receiving order is made against one partner of a firm, any creditor to whom that partner is indebted jointly with the other partners of the firm, or any of them, may prove his debt for the purpose of voting at any meeting of creditors and shall be entitled to vote thereat.
14. The chairman of a meeting shall have power to admit or reject a proof for the purpose of voting but his decision shall be subject to appeal to the court. If he is in doubt whether the proof of a creditor should be admitted or rejected he shall mark the proof as objected to and shall allow the creditor to vote, subject to the vote being declared invalid in the event of the objection being sustained.
15. A creditor may vote either in person or by proxy.
16. Every instrument of proxy shall be in the prescribed form and shall be issued by the Official Receiver or, after the appointment of a trustee, by the trustee, and every insertion therein shall be in the handwriting of the person giving the proxy, or of any manager or clerk or other person in his regular employment, or of any commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court, or of the Official Receiver.
17. General and special forms of proxy shall be sent to the creditors together with a notice summoning a meeting of creditors, and neither the name nor the description of the Official Receiver or of any other person shall be printed or inserted in the body of any instrument of proxy before it is so sent.
18. A creditor may give a general proxy to his manager or clerk or any other person in his regular employment or
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CAP. 6]
Bankruptcy.
[r. 12 cont.] voting at any meeting, to require the creditor to give up the security for the benefit of the creditors generally on payment of the value so estimated, with an addition thereto of twenty per cent: Provided that where a creditor has put a value on such security he may, at any time before he has been required to give up such security as aforesaid, correct such valuation by a new proof and deduct such new value from his debt, but in that case such addition of twenty per cent shall not be made if the trustee requires the security to be given up.
Forms 50, 51. Bankruptcy Rules.
13. If a receiving order is made against one partner of a firm, any creditor to whom that partner is indebted jointly with the other partners of the firm, or any of them, may prove his debt for the purpose of voting at any meeting of creditors and shall be entitled to vote thereat.
14. The chairman of a meeting shall have power to admit or reject a proof for the purpose of voting but his decision shall be subject to appeal to the court. If he is in doubt whether the proof of a creditor should be admitted or rejected he shall mark the proof as objected to and shall allow the creditor to vote, subject to the vote being declared invalid in the event of the objection being sustained.
15. A creditor may vote either in person or by proxy.
16. Every instrument of proxy shall be in the prescribed form and shall be issued by the Official Receiver or, after the appointment of a trustee, by the trustee, and every insertion therein shall be in the handwriting of the person giving the proxy, or of any manager or clerk or other person in his regular employment, or of any commissioner to ad- minister oaths in the Supreme Court, or of the Official Receiver.
17. General and special forms of proxy shall be sent to the creditors together with a notice summoning a meeting of creditors, and neither the name nor the description of the Official Receiver or of any other person shall be printed or inserted in the body of any instrument of proxy before it is
so sent.
18. A creditor may give a general proxy to his manager or clerk or any other person in his regular employment or
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