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Bankruptcy Act 1924
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### Provisions binding the Crown.
E.B.A., s. 151.
W.A., s. 134.
(3.) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of this Act relating to the remedies against the property of a debtor, the priorities of debts, the effect of a composition or scheme of arrangement, and the effect of an order of discharge, shall bind the Crown as representing the Commonwealth or any State:
Provided that where by virtue of anything done prior to the commencement of this Act under any Act, State Act, or law of a Territory, any property, real or personal, is made, before the commencement of this Act, subject to a charge in respect of any debt due to the Crown, as representing the Commonwealth or a State or in respect of any rates imposed by any local governing body, nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of that Act, State Act or law in respect of that charge.