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vote by attorney
 (1) A person entitled to attend and vote at a meeting may attend and vote at a meeting by the person's attorney.
 (2) A person claiming to be the attorney of a person entitled to attend and vote at a meeting is not entitled to speak or vote as attorney at the meeting unless:
 (a) the instrument by which the person was appointed as attorney has been produced to the trustee; or
 (b) the trustee is otherwise satisfied that the person claiming to be the attorney of the person entitled to vote is the duly authorised attorney of that person.

75‑160  Voting by proxy or attorney on remuneration proposals
 (1) This section applies if the trustee is appointed as the proxy or attorney of a creditor.
 (2) The trustee must not cast the creditor's vote on a motion relating to the trustee's remuneration unless the instrument appointing the proxy or the power of attorney (as the case may be) expressly authorises the trustee to cast the creditor's vote on such a motion.

Subdivision E—Additional rules for particular kinds of estates

75‑170  Joint administrations
 (1) At a meeting of the creditors in relation to the following kinds of administration, the trustee must explain to the persons participating and entitled to vote at a meeting and their representatives the likely effect of section 110 of the Act with respect to the distribution of dividends:
 (a) a bankruptcy that occurs as the result of a sequestration order made under section 52 of the Act, being an order made on a petition presented under section 46 of the Act;
 (b) a bankruptcy that occurs by force of section 56E or 57 of the Act;
 (c) bankruptcies in respect of which an order under section 53 of the Act has been made;
 (d) bankruptcies that occur under section 55 of the Act if:
 (i) the date of each bankruptcy is the same; and
 (ii) immediately before the bankruptcies occurred, the bankrupts were joint debtors or partners who owned property jointly;
 (e) the situation arising out of the signing, by joint debtors for the purposes of section 188 of the Act, of a joint authority or separate authorities for the administration of their joint estate.
 (2) At a meeting of the creditors in a bankruptcy to which section 141 of the Act applies, the trustee must explain to the persons participating and entitled to vote at the meeting the likely effect of that section with respect to the distribution of dividends.
 (3) This section applies in relation to a personal insolvency agreement only if:
 (a) a joint estate forms part of the property that is to be dealt with under the agreement; and