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(1)

The relevant enactments relating to personal insolvency are the following—

(a)

section 33 of the 1914 c. 59.Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; and

(b)

section 118 of the 1913 c. 20.Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1913.

(2)

For the operation of those enactments, " the relevant event" in section 153(2) is to be construed as follows—

(a)

in England and Wales, it means the receiving order or death ; and

(b)

in Scotland, it means the award of sequestration or death, or the concourse of diligence for distribution of the estate of a party being notour bankrupt.