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624 ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1864.


Bankruptcy and Insolvency.


Penalty for 147. If any creditor of a bankrupt shall obtain any sum of money,
obtaining
money or or any goods, chattels or security for money from any person as an induce
goods as an
inducement ment for forbearing to oppose, or for consenting to the discharge of, such
to forbear
opposing bankrupt or to forbear to petition for the recall of the same, every such
order of dis
charge. creditor, so offending, shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the
treble value or amount of such money, goods, chattels or security
obtained .

Rehearing of 148. The order of discharge whether suspended or not shall not be
order of
discharge . reviewed by the Court unless the Court see good cause to believe that the
order was obtained on false evidence or by reason of the suppression of

evidence or otherwise fraudulently : in any of which cases the Court may,
if it think fit upon the application of a bankrupt or of a creditor who has
proved and subject to such deposit for costs , and to such notices by
advertisement or otherwise, as the Court shall think fit, grant a rehearing

of the matter and rehear it accordingly, and upon rehearing the Court
shall make such order as shall seem just as in like manner it might upon

an original hearing.

If order sus 149. If on such rehearing the Court shall annul or suspend the
pended on
rehearing order of discharge, all persons having bona fide become creditors of the
subsequent
creditors to bankrupt between the time the discharge took effect and the time of its
prove first
against sub being annulled or suspended on rehearing, shall as against any property
sequent pro
perty. acquired by the bankrupt during the same period, and in priority to the
original creditors , be admitted to prove and have dividends under the
bankruptcy .

Form oforder. 150. The order of discharge shall be in such form as General Orders
shall direct , and shall be under the hand of the ChiefJustice and the seal
Notice to be of the Court ; and notice of the granting thereof shall be advertised in the
advertised.
Hongkong Government Gazette .

As to Dividend.

Dividend. 151. As soon after the adjudication as the Court shall appoint there
shall be submitted to a meeting of creditors to be called for that purpose,

and to be held before such officer as the Court shall appoint, of which
meeting ten days ' notice shall be given in the Hongkong Government
Gazette and in such other newspapers as the Court may direct, a state
ment of the whole estate of the bankrupt, as then ascertained, of the
property recovered , and of the property outstan ling, specifying the cause