Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BANKRUPTCY ACT 1966 - SECT 195

             (1)  The debtor shall, unless prevented by illness or other sufficient cause, attend the meeting.

             (2)  At the meeting, the debtor must help the person presiding to the best of the debtor's knowledge and ability.

             (3)  The debtor shall, at the meeting, answer, to the best of his or her knowledge and ability, all questions put to him or her by the controlling trustee or by a creditor with respect to his or her conduct and examinable affairs.

          (3A)  Where the Official Trustee is the controlling trustee, subsection (3) applies as if the reference in that subsection to the controlling trustee were a reference to an Official Receiver or a person authorized in writing by an Official Receiver to act on behalf of the Official Trustee at the meeting.

             (4)  The failure of the debtor to attend the meeting does not affect the validity of any resolution passed at the meeting.