Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03409:body:0:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03409
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 17582–20155

after "debtor".
     (b) Add at the end "or fund, as the case may be".
Sub-section 20j (3)—
Insert "(other than moneys of the kind referred to in paragraph (1) (b))" after "interest on moneys".
Sub-section 20j (4)—
Omit the sub-section, substitute the following sub-sections:
"(3a) Where, on or after the date of commencement of this sub-section (in this sub-section referred to as the 'commencing day'), the Official Trustee receives an amount by way of interest on moneys held or received by the Official Trustee by reason of being trustee of a fund referred to in paragraph (1) (b) (in this sub-section referred to as the 'appropriate fund'), being moneys that form part of the Common Fund—
     (a) if the interest accrued in respect of a period that ended before the commencing date—the amount of the interest forms part of the appropriate fund; or
     (b) if the interest accrued in respect of a period that commenced before, but ended on or after, the commencing day—an amount that bears to the amount of that interest the same proportion as the number of days in the part of the period in respect of which the interest accrued that occurred before the commencing day bears to the number of days in that period forms part of the appropriate fund.
"(4) Where it is established that—
     (a) moneys held by the Official Trustee as the trustee of the estate of a bankrupt or of a deceased debtor do not form part of the estate; or
     (b) moneys held by the Official Trustee as part of a fund referred to in paragraph (1) (b) do not form part of the fund,
interest on those moneys is payable to the person to whom those moneys are payable, out of the Common Fund, at the rate prescribed for the purposes of this section and in respect of the period during which those moneys are held by the Official Trustee.".
After section 31—
Insert the following section:
Exercise of Powers by certain officials
"31a. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the following powers of the Court under this Act may, if a Judge of the Court, in writing, directs, be exercised by a Registrar of the Court in relation to a proceeding:
     (a) the power to make orders or give directions in relation to the service of a notice or other document under this Act;
     (b) the power to make orders in relation to discovery, inspection and production of documents in the possession, power or custody of a party to the proceeding or of any other person;
     (c) the power to make orders in relation to interrogatories;
     (d) the power to allow the amendment of any written process, proceeding or