PART IXN.I.BANKRUPTCY

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CHAPTER IN.I.BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS; BANKRUPTCY ORDERS

Commencement and duration of bankruptcy; dischargeN.I.

Power of High Court to annul bankruptcy orderN.I.

256.—(1) The High Court may annul a bankruptcy order if it at any time appears to the Court—

(a)that, on any grounds existing at the time the order was made, the order ought not to have been made, or

(b)that, to the extent required by the rules, the bankruptcy debts and the expenses of the bankruptcy have all, since the making of the order, been either paid or secured for to the satisfaction of the Court.

(2) The High Court may annul a bankruptcy order whether or not the bankrupt has been discharged from the bankruptcy.

(3) F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) Where the High Court annuls a bankruptcy order (whether under this Article or under Article 235[F2 or 237D])—

(a)any sale or other disposition of property, payment made or other thing duly done, under any provision in Parts VIII to X, by or under the authority of the official receiver or a trustee of the bankrupt's estate or by the Court is valid, but

(b)if any of the bankrupt's estate is then vested, under any such provision, in such a trustee, it shall vest in such person as the Court may appoint or, in default of any such appointment, revert to the bankrupt on such terms (if any) as the Court may direct;

and the Court may include in its order such supplemental provisions as may be authorised by the rules.

(5) F3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .