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BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 12 of 1980 - SECT 63

Income of bankrupt
63. (1) Section 131 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2) "by the bankrupt"; and

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



"(5) Without limiting the power of the Court to vary an order made under
sub-section (2), the Court may, upon such terms and conditions as it thinks
fit, vary such an order so as to relieve a person from liability to pay to the
trustee amounts that have become payable under the order.



"(6) An order under sub-section (2) ceases to have effect upon the discharge
of the bankrupt in relation to whom the order was made unless at that time the
bankrupt is undischarged from a later bankruptcy.



"(7) Where the Court orders, under sub-section (2), a person other than the
bankrupt to pay income of the bankrupt to the trustee for the benefit of the
bankrupt's creditors, a payment made by that person in pursuance of the order
is, to the extent of the amount paid, a valid discharge to him as against the
bankrupt.". (2) Where-

   (a)  an order made by the Court under sub-section 131 (2) of the Principal
        Act in relation to a bankrupt was in force immediately before the
        commencement of this section; and

   (b)  the bankrupt was discharged from bankruptcy before the commencement of
        this section, the order ceases, by force of this sub-section, to have
        effect upon the commencement of this section. 


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