Bankruptcy Act
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Bankruptcy Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States relating to bankruptcy. The Bill for an Act with this short title will usually have been known as a Bankruptcy Bill during its passage through Parliament.
Bankruptcy Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to bankruptcy.
List
=Australia=
- The Bankruptcy Act 1924
- The Bankruptcy Act 1930
- The Bankruptcy Act 1966Paul Whichelo Nichols and Michael Murray. Annotated Bankruptcy Act 1966. Seventh Edition. LexisNexis Butterworths Australia. 2019. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BqnpvgEACAAJ Google Books]. Australian Bankruptcy Act 1966: With Regulations and Rules. Eleventh Edition. CCH Australia. 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MgnfZfWedH4C&pg=PP1 Google Books].
=Hong Kong=
- The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1932
- The Bankruptcy (Amendment) Ordinance 2005
=Malaysia=
=Nigeria=
Nigerian Business Law. Sweet & Maxwell. 1982. Page 427 and passim. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7IvAQAAIAAJ Google Books].
=Republic of Ireland=
- The Bankruptcy Act 1988 (No 27)
=United Kingdom=
- The Statute of Bankrupts (1542) (34 & 35 Hen. 8. c. 4)
- The act 21 Jas. 1. c. 19 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1623Browne, Denis. Ashburner's Principles of Equity. Second Edition Butterworth & Co (Publishers) Limited. 1933. Page xv. [https://books.google.com/books?id=xMISAQAAMAAJ Google Books]. Also called the Bankrupts Act 1623: Phipson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=32g0AAAAIAAJ The Law of Evidence], 6th Ed, 1921, p xi.
- The Bankruptcy Act 1705
- The act 6 Geo. 4. c. 16 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1825
- The act 5 & 6 Vict. c. 122Flather, John. The New Bankrupt Act, 5 and 6 Victoria C. 122. 2nd Ed. 1842. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CYYZdx_xJIAC&pg=PR1 Google Books] is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1842[1885] Complete Annual Digest [https://books.google.com/books?id=i3wDAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PA27 27] or the Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1842.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8n0hAQAAMAAJ 110] Law Journal Reports 220
- The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 106)Archbold, John Frederick. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849. Shaw and Sons. Whittaker & Co. Hamilton, Adams & Co. London. 1849. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-YxhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]. Wise, Edward. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849. John Crockford. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. London. 1849. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7RVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]. John Houston Browne and W W Ogbourne. The New Bankruptcy Act: The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. Cap. 106). 1849. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940196026 WorldCat]. Shelford, Leonard.The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849. First Edition. 1849.
Second Edition. William Maxwell. 1854. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180779082 WorldCat]. Moseley, Edward. The Bankrupt-Law Consolidation Act, 1849, epitomised. 1849. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884738891 WorldCat]. Fonblanque. Reports of Cases Adjudicated in the Several Courts of the Commissioner in Bankruptcy, under the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq0zAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 Google Books]. Hertslet. The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849. 1852. [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56003575 WorldCat].
- The act 15 & 16 Vict. c. 77 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1852Jemmett. The Bankruptcy Acts and Orders. 1861. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VxVXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA195 p 195]. or the Secretary of Bankrupts Office Abolition ActPaterson (ed). The Practical Statutes of the Session 1852. John Crockford. 1852. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GT41AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA315 p 315].
- The Bankruptcy Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 119)
- The Bankruptcy Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 134)
- The act 25 & 26 Vict. c. 99 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1862George Pitt-Lewis and Charles Arnold White. The Yearly County Court Practice 1912. Butterworth & Co. Shaw & Sons. London. 1912. Page xvii. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YE0tAQAAMAAJ Google Books].
- The Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 104) popularly called Moffatt's Act"The Bankruptcy Amendment Act, 1868". Banking Almanac, Directory, Year Book and Diary for 1869. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cvkNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA46 p 46]. De Gex and Smith. [https://books.google.com/books?id=htoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 Second Supplement to Arrangements between Debtors and Creditors under the Bankruptcy Act, 1861]. Stevens and Sons. 1869. [https://books.google.com/books?id=i3kDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA934 General Orders] in Law Journal. Josiah William Smith. "Some Enactments in the Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act, 1861". A Compendium of the Law of Real and Personal Property. Sixth Edition. Stevens and Sons. 1884. Volume 2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2ugDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA927 p 927]. Paterson, William (ed). "Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act". Practical Statutes of the Session 1868. Horace Cox. 1868. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WqgaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA249 p 249]. "Bankruptcy Amendment Act, 1868" (1868) 8 Law Students' Examination Chronicle [https://books.google.com/books?id=BpQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA247 247]. Holmes, Charles A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_pMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1457 A Supplement to Griffith & Holmes's Treatise on the Bankrupt Law: containing The Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1868 ... and the Liquidation Act 1868 ...]. H Sweet. Stevens and Sons. 1869.
- The Bankruptcy Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 71)
- The Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 83)
- The Bankruptcy Disqualification Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 50)
- The Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement Act 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 34)
- The Bankruptcy Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 59)
- The Bankruptcy (Amendment) Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 7)
{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title = Bankruptcy Act 1883{{efn|Section 1.}}
| type = Act
| parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title = An Act to amend and consolidate the Law of Bankruptcy.
| year = 1883
| citation = 46 & 47 Vict. c. 52
| introduced_commons =
| introduced_lords =
| territorial_extent = England and Wales{{efn|Section 2.}}
| royal_assent = 25 August 1883
| commencement = 1 January 1884{{efn|Section 3.}}
| repeal_date = 16 November 1989
| amends =
| replaces =
| amendments = {{ubli|Execution of Damages Act 1285|Debtors Act 1869|Bankruptcy Act 1869|Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act 1869|Absconding Debtors Act 1870|Bankruptcy Disqualification Act 1871|Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1875|Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Act 1888|Bankruptcy Act 1914}}
| repealing_legislation = Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989
| related_legislation = {{ubli|Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act 1849|Bankruptcy Repeal and Insolvent Court Act 1869|Bankruptcy Act 1869}}
| status = Repealed
| original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/46-47/52/enacted
| collapsed = yes
}}
The Bankruptcy Acts 1883 to 1890 was the collective title of the following acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2
- The {{visible anchor|Bankruptcy Act 1883}} (46 & 47 Vict. c. 52)
- The Bankruptcy Appeals (County Courts) Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 9)
- The Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 47)
- The Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 12)
- The Bankruptcy (Discharge and Closure) Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 66)
- The Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 62)
- The Bankruptcy Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 71)
Scotland
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Amendment Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 33)
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5. c. 20)
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 66)
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 6)
- The Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3)
The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Acts 1856 to 1881 was the collective title of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 79)
- The Bankruptcy and Real Securities (Scotland) Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 19)
- The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 26)
- The Debtors (Scotland) Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 34)
- The Bankruptcy and Cessio (Scotland) Act 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 22)
Ireland
- The Irish Bankrupt and Insolvent Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 60)
- The Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 58)
=United States=
- The Bankruptcy Act of 1841 – ch. 9, {{USStat|5|440}}, 1841-04-19
- The Bankruptcy Act of 1867 - {{USStat|14|517}}, 1867-03-02
- The Bankruptcy Act of 1898 – Nelson Act, July 1, 1898, ch. 541, {{USStat|30|544}}
- The Bankruptcy Act of 1938
- The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 – {{USStatute|95|598|92|2549|1978|11|06}}
- The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 - {{USStatute|109|8|119|23|2005|04|20}}
=Vancouver Island=
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