58   Officer to report bankruptcy etc

(1988 Act, s 79)

(1)  If an officer becomes bankrupt or makes a composition, arrangement or assignment for the benefit of the officer’s creditors, the officer must:

(a)  immediately give to the appropriate Department Head notice of the bankruptcy, composition, arrangement or assignment, and

(b)  within such period as the Department Head specifies, provide that Department Head with such further information with respect to the cause of the bankruptcy or of the making of the composition, arrangement or assignment as that Department Head requires.

(2)  If any such officer is the Department Head, subsection (1) applies as if references to the appropriate Department Head were references to the Minister responsible for the Department.