Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1989 No. 183 BANKRUPTCY RULES (AMENDMENT) - RULE 13

13. Rule 100A of the Bankruptcy Rules is amended:
(a) by omitting "or" from paragraph (b) of the definition of "joint
bankruptcy";
(b) by adding at the end of the definition "joint bankruptcy" the following
word and paragraph:

"; or (d) bankruptcies that occur under section 55 of the Act 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;";

   (c)  by inserting after the definition of "joint bankruptcy" the following
        definition:

" 'joint and several creditors' means creditors of joint debtors or partners,
to whom the debtors are liable both as joint debtors and as individual
debtors;";
(d) by adding "or joint and several creditors" at the end of the definition of
"separate creditors".