Section 53: Bona fide transactions without notice
consolidated text (as at 2000). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
53. Bona fide transactions without notice
Subject to sections 49 to 52, 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;
(d) any contract, dealing or transaction by or with the bankrupt for
valuable consideration,
where 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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