Singapore legislation

Section 54

Protection of bona fide transactions without notice

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Act with respect to the effect of bankruptcy on an execution or attachment, and with respect to the avoidance of certain settlements and preferences, nothing in this Act shall invalidate in the case of a bankruptcy —

(a)

any payment by the bankrupt to any of his creditors;

(b)

any payment or delivery to the bankrupt;

(c)

any conveyance or assignment by the bankrupt for valuable consideration; or

(d)

any contract, dealing or transaction by or with the bankrupt for valuable consideration,provided that both the following conditions are complied with:

(i)

the payment, delivery, conveyance, assignment, contract, dealing or transaction, as the case may be, takes place before the date of the receiving order; and

(ii)

the person other than the debtor to, by, or with whom the payment, delivery, conveyance, assignment, contract, dealing or transaction was made, executed or entered into has not, at the time of the payment, delivery, conveyance, assignment, contract, dealing or transaction, notice of any available act of bankruptcy committed by the bankrupt before that time.

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