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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 32

General Recommendations

General Recommendations.

The Committee would strongly recommend that a special Act should be passed validating all past proceedings under the Debtors and Creditors Act 1875, in so far as they are rendered doubtful by the conflict between the Act and the Rules of Court that have been gazetted under it, or by ambiguities in the Act or in the Rules.

The Committee also recommend that the Chamber should again pointedly urge upon the Government that the evidence of experienced persons should be taken before a Select Committee of Parliament before an Amending Act is passed, and that such evidence should also be obtained for the information of the Governor in Council before amendments of the Rules of Court are passed.

The Bill amending the Bankruptcy Laws, drafted by Mr. Macassey last year, and introduced into the Legislative Council by Hon. Mr. Buckley, together with the suggestions for a basis of a Bankruptcy Act forwarded to the Chamber by the Hon. Mr. Reynolds, have had careful consideration at the hands of the Committee; and all their provisions, so far as the Committee have been able to agree with them, have been embodied in the foregoing recommendations.