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Bankruptcy (Amendment) Act 1986

FIJI


BANKRUPTCY (AMENDMENT) ACT 1986


ACT No. 33 OF 1986


I assent.


[L.S.]


P. K. GANILAU
Governor-General


16th December 1986


AN ACT


TO AMEND THE BANKRUPTCY ACT


ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji-


Short title


1. This Act may be cited as the Bankruptcy (Amendment) Act, 1986.


Commencement


2. This Act shall come into force or shall be deemed to have come into force, as the case may be, on the same date as the Fiji National Provident Fund (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1986.


Priority of debts


3. Section 35 of the Bankruptcy Act is amended in subsection (1) by substituting a semi-colon for the full stop at the end of paragraph (e) and inserting the following paragraph thereafter-


"Fiji National Provident Fund


(f) all amounts due in respect of contributions payable during the period of twelve months before the receiving order by the bankrupt as the employer of any person under the Fiji National Provident Fund Act.".


Passed by the House of Representatives this third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-six.


Passed by the Senate this eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-six.


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