Hong Kong Regulations

PROOF OF DEBTS RULES - RULE 19

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PERIODICAL PAYMENTS

When any rent or other payment falls due at stated periods and the bankruptcy
order is made at any time other than one of those periods, the person entitled
to the rent or payment may prove for a proportionate part thereof up to the
date of the order as if the rent or payment became due from day to day. (L.N.
85 of 1998)
___________________________________________________________________ Notes: 1.
Please see the transitional provisions contained in s. 8 of L.N. 85 of 1998,
which section is reproduced as follows: "8. Transitional

Where before these Rules come into operation-

   (a)  a petition in bankruptcy has been presented; or

   (b)  a receiving order or adjudication in bankruptcy has been made, under
        the Ordinance, then the principal Rules as they existed before being
        amended by these Rules continue to apply to proceedings in respect of
        such a petition, receiving order or adjudication in bankruptcy."

2. L.N. 85 of 1998 came into operation on 1 April 1998.