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Bankruptcy Act 1924
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### Apprenticeship claims.
E.B.A., s. 34.
N.S.W., s. 49.
Vic., s. 189.
S.A., s. 203.
W.A., s. 39.
Q., s. 144.
Tas., s. 32.
87.—(1.) Where at the time of the presentation of the petition any person is apprenticed or is an articled clerk to the bankrupt, the sequestration order shall, if the apprentice or clerk or any person acting on his behalf gives notice in writing to the trustee to that effect, be a complete discharge of the indenture of apprenticeship or articles of agreement; and if any money has been paid by or on behalf of the apprentice or clerk to the bankrupt as a fee, the trustee may, on application by or on behalf of the apprentice or clerk, pay out of the bankrupt’s property, to or for the use of the apprentice or clerk, such sum as the trustee, subject to an appeal to the Court, thinks reasonable, regard being had to the amount paid by or on behalf of the apprentice or clerk and to the time during which he has served with the bankrupt under the indenture or articles and to the other circumstances of the case.
(2.) The trustee shall, on the application of any apprentice or articled clerk to the bankrupt, or of any person acting on his behalf, transfer the indenture of apprenticeship or articles of agreement to some other person.