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BANKRUPTCY, ENGLAND.
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(6.) All payments shall, unless the Board of Trade otherwise. orders, be made into and out of the Bank of England.

(7.) The first meeting of creditors may, where it is expedient, be held on the day appointed for the public examination, or on any other day fixed by the Official Receiver. If a quorum of creditors be not present, it shall not be necessary to adjourn the meeting.

(8.) Meetings of creditors shall, unless the Official Receiver for special reasons otherwise determines, be held in the town or place in which the Court usually holds its sittings, or in which the office of the Official Receiver is situate.

(9.) On an application by a bankrupt for his discharge the certificate of the Official Receiver shall not include, nor shall notices be sent to, creditors whose debts do not exceed 21.

(10.) In lieu of the copy of the account to be filed with the Court, as prescribed by section 78 (4) of the Act of 1883, a statement showing the position of the estate analogous, as nearly as may be, to that prescribed by Form No. 122 in the Appendix shall be filed.

(11.) Notices of meetings, other than of first meetings, or of sittings of the Court, shall only be sent to creditors whose debts or claims exceed the sum of 21.

(12.) The time mentioned in section 58 (2) of the Act of 1883 shall be extended to six months.

(13.) The estate shall be realised with all reasonable despatch, and, where practicable, distributed in a single dividend when realised.

(14.) The costs or charges of any person employed by the Official Receiver other than of a solicitor may be paid and allowed without taxation where such costs or charges are within the prescribed scale; provided that the Board of Trade may require such costs or charges to be taxed by the taxing officer.

Administration of Estate of Person dying Insolvent.

Rules as to administration of estate of deceased insolvent. [279.]

64. In proceedings under an order for the administration of the estate of a person dying insolvent, where a meeting of creditors is summoned for the appointment of a trustee :-


(1.) The provisions of Schedule J. of the Act of 1883 relating to the mode of summoning a meeting of creditors, and to the persons entitled to vote at a meeting;

(2.) The provisions of the Bankruptcy Rules, 1880 and 1890, which refer to creditors, meetings of creditors, trustees, and committees of inspection; and

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