Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 12 of 1980 - SECT 175

175. Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, an Official
Receiver, for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 or of the provisions of
the Bankruptcy Act 1924-1965 in their continued application by virtue of the
Bankruptcy Act 1966, held or was acting in the office of trustee or one of the
offices of trustee of the estate of a bankrupt or of a deceased debtor or of a
deed of assignment, a deed of arrangement, a composition or a scheme of
arrangement, the Official Trustee in Bankruptcy becomes, upon the commencement
of this section, the trustee or one of the trustees of the estate, deed,
composition or scheme of arrangement, as the case requires, in place of the
Official Receiver, and holds or acts in that office of trustee under and in
accordance with the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 or, subject to that
Act, the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1924-1965 in their continued
application by virtue of the Bankruptcy Act 1966, as the case requires.