Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BANKRUPTCY ACT 1966 - SECT 189AA

  (1)   The Court may make an order that has effect while the property of the debtor is subject to control:

  (a)   discharging an order made at any time against the person or property of the debtor under a law relating to the imprisonment of fraudulent debtors; or

  (b)   staying a civil or criminal legal process begun at any time against the person or property of the debtor for the debtor's failure:

  (i)   to pay a debt that would be provable if the debtor were bankrupt; or

  (ii)   to pay a pecuniary penalty payable as a result of the failure to pay a debt that would be provable if the debtor were bankrupt; or

  (iii)   to obey an order of a court to pay a debt that would be provable if the debtor were bankrupt; or

  (c)   if the debtor has been imprisoned under a law described in paragraph   (a) or for a failure described in paragraph   (b)--releasing the debtor from custody.

  (2)   Paragraph   (1)(b) does not allow the Court to stay any proceedings under a proceeds of crime law.