UNIVERSITY
OF
LIBRARY
HONG
Meetings of Creditors Rules
[CAP. 6]
MEETINGS OF CREDITORS RULES
(Cap. 6, section 17)
HONG KONG
[1 January 1932.]
1. The first meeting of creditors shall be summoned for a day within 3 months after the date of the receiving order, unless the court for any special reason deems it expedient that the meeting be summoned for a later day.
2. The Official Receiver shall summon the meeting by giving not less than 4 clear days' notice of the time and place thereof in the Gazette and in a local paper.
3. The Official Receiver shall also as soon as practicable send to each creditor mentioned in the debtor's statement of affairs a notice of the time and place of the first meeting of creditors, but the proceedings at the first meeting shall not be invalidated by reason of any such notice not having been sent or received before the meeting.
4. The meeting shall be held at the office of the Official Receiver.
[Subsidiary]
10 of 1931. First Schedule.
L.N. 48/64.
L.N. 37/76.
5. The Official Receiver or the trustee may at any time summon a meeting of creditors, and shall do so whenever so directed by the court or so requested by a creditor in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance.
L.N. 142/88.
Form 29. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules. L.N. 48/64. L.N. 37/76. L.N. 142/85.
6. Meetings subsequent to the first meeting shall be summoned by sending notice of the time and place thereof to each creditor at the address given in his proof, or if he has not proved, at the address given in the debtor's statement of affairs, or at such other address as may be known to the person summoning the meeting.
7. The Official Receiver or some person nominated by him shall be the chairman at the first meeting, and at subsequent meetings until the appointment of a trustee other than the Official Receiver, when such trustee shall be chairman.
Forms 30, 31. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules.
8. A person shall not be entitled to vote as a creditor at the first or any other meeting of creditors unless he has duly proved a debt provable in bankruptcy to be due to him from the debtor and the proof has been duly lodged 24 hours at least before the time appointed for the meeting.
9. A creditor shall not vote at any such meeting in respect of any unliquidated or contingent debt or any debt the value of which is not ascertained.
(Cap. 6.)
Forms 31, 32, 43, 44. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules.
UNIVERSPRE
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FOF
LIBRARY
HONE
Meetings of Creditors Rules
[CAP. 6
MEETINGS OF CREDITORS RULES
(Cap. 6. section 17)
KONG
[1 January 1932.]
1. The first meeting of creditors shall be summoned for a day within 3 months after the date of the receiving order, unless the court for any special reason deems it expedient that the meeting be summoned for a later day.
2. The Official Receiver shall summon the meeting by giving not less than 4 clear days' notice of the time and place thereof in the Gazette and in a local paper.
3. The Official Receiver shall also as soon as practicable send to each creditor mentioned in the debtor's statement of affairs a notice of the time and place of the first meeting of creditors, but the proceedings at the first meeting shall not be invalidated by reason of any such notice not having been sent or received before the meeting.
4. The meeting shall be held at the office of the Official Receiver.
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[Subsidiary]
10 of 1931. First Schedule.
LX. 48/64.
L.X. 3776.
5. The Official Receiver or the trustee may at any time summon a meeting of creditors, and shall do so whenever so directed by the court or so requested by a creditor in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance.
L.N. 142/88.
Form 29. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules. L.N. 48/64. L.N. 37/76. L.N. 142785.
6. Meetings subsequent to the first meeting shall be sum- moned by sending notice of the time and place thereof to each creditor at the address given in his proof, or if he has not proved, at the address given in the debtor's statement of affairs, or at such other address as may be known to the person summoning the meeting.
7. The Official Receiver or some person nominated by him shall be the chairman at the first meeting, and at subsequent meetings until the appointment of a trustee other than the Official Receiver, when such trustee shall be chairman.
Forms 30. 31. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules.
8. A person shall not be entitled to vote as a creditor at the first or any other meeting of creditors unless he has duly proved a debt provable in bankruptcy to be due to him from the debtor and the proof has been duly lodged 24 hours at least before the time appointed for the meeting.
9. A creditor shall not vote at any such meeting in respect of any unliquidated or contingent debt or any debt the value of which is not ascertained.
(Cap. 6.)
Forms 31, 32, 43, 44. Bankruptcy (Forms) Rules.
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