Bankruptcy Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1) (195 of 2010)

Schedule 1   Amendments

[9]   Subregulation 4.11 (5)

substitute

(5) Subregulation (6) applies if a person (the intending petitioner ) intends to present a petition under Division 2 of Part IV of the Act and the intending petitioner is:

(a) unable to read the relevant material, because he or she is:

(i) blind, partially sighted, illiterate or partially literate; or

(ii) insufficiently familiar with the English language; or

(b) unable to sign the petition or the acknowledgment, because of a physical incapacity.

(6) The petition and the acknowledgement may be signed by another person, who must sign a statement:

(a) if subparagraph (5) (a) (i) applies - that he or she has read the relevant material to the intending petitioner; or

(b) if subparagraph (5) (a) (ii) applies - that he or she has interpreted the relevant material to the intending petitioner in a language with which both persons are familiar; or

(c) if paragraph (5) (b) applies - that he or she believes that the intending petitioner has read and understood the relevant material.

(7) In this regulation:

relevant material means the petition, the prescribed information and the acknowledgment.


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