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CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 243L

Sale of property before bankruptcy

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   the Commonwealth has, within 6 months before the presentation of a petition, or after the presentation of a petition, against a person, received moneys from the Official Trustee or an Official Receiver in pursuance of a direction under section   243G in relation to the liability of the person to pay a pecuniary penalty; and

  (b)   the person subsequently becomes a bankrupt on, or by virtue of the presentation of, the petition;

the Commonwealth shall pay to the trustee in the bankruptcy an amount equal to the amount paid to the Commonwealth in accordance with the direction, less the taxed costs of the Minister, the Commissioner of Police, the Comptroller - General of Customs or the Director of Public Prosecutions in respect of the making of the direction under section   243G.

  (2)   Where the Commonwealth has paid to the trustee in bankruptcy an amount in accordance with subsection   (1), the Commonwealth may prove in the bankruptcy for its debt as an unsecured creditor as if the order under section   243G had not been made.

  (3)   Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bankruptcy Act 1966 , a person who purchases in good faith, property of a person who, after the purchase, becomes a bankrupt, under a sale of the property in pursuance of a direction given under section   243G acquires a good title to it as against the trustee in the bankruptcy.



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