Section 169Part 27 — Apprenticeship
Discharge of indenture of apprentice of debtor and preferential allowance thereon
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Where, at the time of the presentment of the bankruptcy petition, any person is apprenticed or an articled clerk to the debtor, the provisional order shall, if either the debtor, apprentice or clerk give notice in writing to the Trustee or receiver 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 such apprentice or clerk to the debtor as a fee, the Trustee or receiver may, on the application of the apprentice or clerk or of some person on that apprentice’s or clerk’s behalf, pay such sum as such Trustee or receiver, subject to an appeal to the Court of Appeal, thinks reasonable, out of the debtor’s property, to or for the use of the apprentice or clerk, regard being had to the amount paid by that apprentice or clerk or on that apprentice’s or clerk’s behalf, and to the time during which that apprentice or clerk served with the debtor under the indenture or articles before the date of the provisional order, and to the other circumstances of the case.