Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Division, unless the contrary intention appears:
"bankrupt" , in relation to a meeting of the creditors of 2 or more bankrupts, means each bankrupt.
"creditors and their representatives" , in relation to a meeting, means:
(a) the creditors who are entitled to vote at the meeting and are participating in person or by telephone in the meeting; and
(b) the persons participating in person or by telephone in the meeting as proxies or attorneys of any other creditors who are entitled to vote at the meeting.
(a) a bankruptcy that occurs as the result of a sequestration order made under section 52, being an order made on a petition presented under section 46; or
(b) a bankruptcy that occurs by force of section 56E or 57; or
(c) bankruptcies in respect of which an order under section 53 has been made; or
(d) bankruptcies that occur under section 55 where:
(i) the date of each bankruptcy is the same; and
(ii) immediately before the bankruptcies occurred, the bankrupts were joint debtors or partners who owned property jointly.
"meeting" means a meeting of the creditors of a bankrupt or a meeting of the creditors of any one or more of the bankrupts who were made bankrupt in a joint bankruptcy.
"minutes secretary" , in relation to a meeting, means a person appointed under section 64L to record the minutes of the meeting.
"President" , in relation to a meeting, means the person elected under section 64P to preside at the meeting.
"working day" , in relation to a proposed meeting, means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the place where the meeting is proposed to be held.
(2) A reference in this Division to a person participating in person in a meeting is a reference to a person being physically present at the meeting.
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