Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 12 of 1980 - SECT 108

108. Section 203 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:



"(2A) Where-

   (a)  the Official Trustee is acting as the controlling trustee; and

   (b)  an Official Receiver, or a person authorized by an Official Receiver
        to act on behalf of the Official Trustee for the purpose, attended a
        meeting under this Division, the Official Receiver or that person, as
        the case may be, may sign the minutes of the meeting in place of the
        chairman if the chairman dies without having signed the minutes or
        becomes incapable, whether through illness or other cause, of signing
        the minutes as required by sub-section (1)."; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:



"(4) Where minutes of the proceedings at a meeting under this Division are
prepared and signed in pursuance of this section, or a minute referred to in
sub-section (3) is prepared and signed in pursuance of that sub-section, the
controlling trustee, or the solicitor who called the meeting, shall, within 21
days after the day on which the meeting was held, cause a copy of the minutes
or minute, as the case may be, to be filed in the office of the Registrar.".