Bankruptcy Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 3
39. Preferential claims in case of apprenticeship
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Where at the time of the presentation of the bankruptcy petition, any person is apprenticed or is an articled clerk to the bankrupt, the adjudication of bankruptcy shall, if either the bankrupt or the apprentice or clerk gives notice in writing to the trustee to that effect, be a complete discharge of the indenture of apprenticeship or articles of agreement;
if any money has been paid by or on behalf of the apprentice or clerk to the bankrupt as a fee, the trustee may, on the application of the apprentice or clerk or of some person on his behalf, pay such sum as the trustee, subject to an appeal to the
Court, thinks reasonable out of the bankrupt's property to or for the use of the apprentice or clerk, regard being had to the amount paid by him or on his behalf and to the time during which he served with
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the bankrupt under the indenture or articles before the commencement of the bankrupt and to the other circumstances of the case.
Where it appears expedient to a trustee he may, on the application of any apprentice or articled clerk to the bankrupt or any person acting on behalf of such apprentice or articled clerk, instead of acting under subsection (I), transfer the indenture of apprenticeship or articles of a agreement to some other person.
Terms defined in s 2
property
Defined · s 2"property" includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere, also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;
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Chapter 19), unless he informs the trustee in writing to the contrary, is deemed to be his last known address for the purpose of subsection (3).
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