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a certificate from the Official Receiver specifying the number of his creditors of whom the Official Receiver has notice (whether they have proved or not). The Registrar shall, not less than 28 days before the day appointed for hearing the application, give notice of the time and place of the hearing of the application to the Official Receiver and trustee, and the Official Receiver shall forthwith send notice thereof to the Board of Trade for insertion in the London Gazette.

(2.) Notice of the day appointed for the hearing of the debtor's application for discharge shall be sent by the Official Receiver to each creditor not less than 14 days before the day so appointed. Such notice shall be in the Form No. 61 in the Appendix.

Opposed applications. [286.]

44. In any case in which an application is made to the Court by a bankrupt for his discharge, and the Official Receiver reports to the Court any fact, matter, or circumstance which would, under the Acts, justify the Court in refusing an unconditional order of discharge, such application shall be deemed to be an opposed application within the meaning of section 99 (2) (c) of the Act of 1883.

Appeals. [237.]

45. An appeal to the Court of Appeal shall lie at the instance of the Board of Trade, and at the instance of the trustee (if any) from any order of the Court made upon an application for discharge.

Report of Official Receiver. [238.] 46. In every case of an application by a bankrupt for his dis- charge, the report of the Official Receiver shall be filed not less than seven days before the time fixed for hearing the application. report.

Evidence in answer to [288A.] 47. Where a bankrupt intends to dispute any statement with regard to his conduct and affairs contained in the Receiver's report, he shall, not less than two days before the hearing of the application for discharge, give notice in writing to Official the Official Receiver, specifying the statements in the report, if any, which he proposes at the hearing to dispute. Any creditor who intends to oppose the discharge of a bankrupt on grounds other than these mentioned in the Official Receiver's report, shall give notice of the intended opposition, stating the grounds thereof, to the Official Receiver not less than two days before the hearing of the application.

Costs of application. [239.]

48. A bankrupt shall not be entitled to have any of the costs of or incidental to his application for his discharge allowed to him out of his estate.

Conditional orders. [240.] 49. (1.) Where the Court grants an order of discharge condi- tionally upon the bankrupt consenting to judgment being entered against him by the Official Receiver or trustee for the balance or any part of the balance of the debts provable under the bankruptcy which is not satisfied at the date of his discharge, the order of discharge shall not be signed, completed, or delivered out until the bankrupt has given the required consent in the Form