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Part I—Preliminary

1.   Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the Bankruptcy Act 1966.

2.   Commencement [see Note 1]

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

4.   Repeal

(1)    The Acts specified in Schedule 1 are repealed.

(2)    Notwithstanding the repeal of the Bankruptcy Act 1958 or the Bankruptcy Act 1959 effected by subsection (1) of this section:

(a)    the provisions of section 7 of the Bankruptcy Act 1958, as amended by the Bankruptcy Act 1959, continue to apply to a purported extension of time or a purported fixing of a time to which those provisions applied immediately before the commencement of this Act; and

(b)    the provisions of section 5 of the Bankruptcy Act 1959 continue to apply to a seal or stamp to which those provisions applied immediately before