Section 62Part 11 — Proceedings Under an Absolute Order for Bankruptcy
Examination of debtor, and into the debtor’s affairs
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When an absolute order for bankruptcy has been made against a debtor the Court shall direct the adjudication to be gazetted, and shall direct a public sitting to be held on a day to be named for the purpose of examining into the affairs of the debtor, and the debtor shall attend at such sitting and submit themself to examination as to the debtor’s conduct, dealings and property.
The sitting may be adjourned as often as the Court thinks fit, and the debtor shall attend at each adjourned meeting.
The Court may, at such sitting, take such evidence as it thinks necessary, and such evidence as may be tendered by the creditors, the Trustee or the debtor, or any of them.
For the purposes of the examination, the Court may take evidence viva voce, or by affidavit, interrogatories or commission, as it thinks fit.
When the Court is satisfied that the debtor’s affairs have been sufficiently investigated it may declare the examination finished.
On the public examination of the debtor under this section the debtor shall be examined upon oath, and it is the debtor’s duty to answer all such questions as the Court may put or allow to be put to the debtor. Such notes of the examination as the Court thinks proper shall be taken down in writing, and shall be read over to and signed by the debtor, and may thereafter be used in evidence against the debtor; and they shall also be open to the inspection of any creditor at all reasonable times.