The Weekly Law Reports
[1955] 3 WLR 172
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
In re
FLETCHER, A DEBTOR.
Ex parte
FLETCHER
v.
OFFICIAL RECEIVER.
[No. 594, 1954.]
1955 May 5,
6,
17,
25.
Evershed M.R., Hodson and Romer L.JJ.
Bankruptcy
— Bankruptcy Rules
— Validity
— Creditors' resolution that debtor be not adjudged bankrupt
— Application by official receiver for adjudication
— Jurisdiction of court
— Enactment that rules “in force … continue in force … and … have effect as if made under this Act”
— Subsequent new rule in identical terms
—
Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), ss. 18 (1), 132, 168 (3)
—
Bankruptcy Rules, 1952 (S.I. 1952, No. 2113 (L.14)), r. 219.
Statutory Instrument
— Validity
— Whether ultra vires.