Section 75: Creditors residing in distant places
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.
75. Creditors residing in distant places
(1) In the calculation and distribution of a dividend, the trustee shall
make provision for provable debts appearing from the bankrupt’s statements,
to be due to persons resident in places so distant from the place where the
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trustee is acting that, in the ordinary course of communication, they have
not had sufficient time to tender their proofs, or to establish them if disputed, and also for provable debts, the subject of claims not yet determined.
(2) This section shall not apply to the case of an absconding debtor who
has left without filing his statement of affairs, in which case, the first dividend shall be declared after the expiration of 6 months from the date of the
adjudication of bankruptcy and shall be paid to the creditors who have
proved their claims in the prescribed manner.