Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 18 · Annulment and Discharge
398. Discharged bankrupt to give assistance
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A discharged bankrupt must still help the official assignee, as required, to realise and distribute their property vested in the official assignee. Failing to help is an offence, with a fine of up to $10,000. The court may also revoke the discharge, but things properly done between the discharge and its revocation stay valid.
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A discharged bankrupt must, despite his or her discharge, give assistance as the Official Assignee requires in the realisation and distribution of such of his or her property as is vested in the Official Assignee.
bankrupt
“bankrupt” means —(a)an individual debtor who has been adjudged bankrupt by a bankruptcy order; or(b)where a bankruptcy order has been made against a firm, each of the partners in the firm;
If the discharged bankrupt fails to give assistance to the Official Assignee under subsection (1) —
Official Assignee
“Official Assignee” means the Official Assignee appointed under section 16(1) and includes a Deputy Official Assignee, a Senior Assistant Official Assignee and an Assistant Official Assignee;
the discharged bankrupt shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000; and
the Court may, if it thinks fit, revoke the discharged bankrupt’s discharge, but without affecting the validity of any sale, disposition or payment duly made, or thing duly done subsequent to the discharge, but before its revocation.