Bankruptcy Act 1966
[ CCH Note: Act No 80 of 2004, s 3 and Sch 2 item 12 contained the following transitional provision, effective 1 December 2004:
the application is a
pre-commencement annulment application
. as if those repeals had not happened and those amendments had not been made.
12 Transitional
-
annulments
]
(1)
For the purposes of this item, if a composition or scheme of arrangement under Division 6 of Part IV of the
Bankruptcy Act 1966
was annulled before 1 December 2004, the annulment is a
pre-commencement annulment
.
(2)
For the purposes of this item, if:
(a)
an application is made before 1 December 2004 under subsection 75(4) of the
Bankruptcy Act 1966
for the annulment of a composition or scheme of arrangement; and
(b)
as at 1 December 2004, proceedings in relation to that application have not been finally determined;
(3)
Despite the repeals and amendments made by items 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of this Schedule and item 41 of Schedule 1, the
Bankruptcy Act 1966
and regulations under that Act continue to apply, in relation to:
(a)
a pre-commencement annulment; and
(b)
a pre-commencement annulment application; and
(c)
an annulment that results from a pre-commencement annulment application;
If the proposal is accepted by a special resolution of creditors at a meeting held in accordance with the Insolvency Practice Rules, the bankruptcy is annulled, by force of this subsection, on the day the special resolution was passed.
View history note
Hide history note(Omitted by No 9 of 1992, s 15.) 74(5)
(Repealed by No 11 of 2016)
The trustee must, before the end of the period of 2 days beginning on that date, give the Official Receiver a written notice setting out the name and the bankruptcy number of the former bankrupt and the date of the annulment.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
Note:
See also section 277B (about infringement notices).
Subsection (5A) is an offence of strict liability.
Note:
For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
Where a bankruptcy is annulled under this section, all sales and dispositions of property and payments duly made, and all acts done, by the trustee or any person acting under the authority of the trustee or the Court before the annulment shall be deemed to have been validly made or done but, subject to subsection (7) , the property of the bankrupt still vested in the trustee vests in such person as the Court appoints or, in default of such an appointment, reverts to the bankrupt for all his or her estate or interest in it, on such terms and subject to such conditions (if any) as the Court orders.
Where a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory requires the transmission of property to be registered, any such property vested in the trustee at the time of the annulment of the bankruptcy, notwithstanding that it vests in equity in such person as the Court appoints or in the bankrupt, as the case may be, does not vest in that person or the bankrupt at law until the requirements of that law have been complied with.
[ CCH Note: Modification Declaration FRLI No F2021L00261 (FRLI No F2021L00261, registered on 19 March 2021 and effective from 1 April 2021.)
Section 74 of the Act is modified by substituting the section:
Penalty: 5 penalty units. See also section
277B
(about infringement notices).
SECTION 74 ANNULMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
74(1)
If a proposal to annul the administration of an estate is accepted by a special resolution of creditors at a meeting held in accordance with the Insolvency Practice Rules, the administration of the estate is annulled, by force of this subsection, on the day the special resolution is passed.
74(2)
Within 2 business days after that day, the trustee of the estate must give to the Official Receiver a certificate, signed by the trustee, of the following matters:
(a)
the name of the estate;
(b)
the number of the administration;
(c)
the terms and date of the special resolution.
Note:
74(3)
An offence against subsection (2) is an offence of strict liability.
74(4)
The Official Receiver must enter the day on which the administration of the estate is annulled in the National Personal Insolvency Index. ]
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