Insolvency Act, 1936 (Act No. 24 of 1936)

108. Inspection of trustee's accounts by creditors
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(1)If an insolvent resided or carried on business, before the sequestration of his estate, in a district (other than the district of Wynberg, Simonstown or Bellville in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope) in which there is no Master's office, the trustee of that estate shall transmit to the magistrate of that district or, if the insolvent resided or carried on business in a portion of that district in respect of which an additional or assistant magistrate permanently carries out the functions of the magistrate of that district at a place other than the seat of magistracy of that district, to such additional or assistant magistrate, a duplicate of every account which he submitted to the Master as hereinbefore provided.

 

(2)The trustee shall, as soon as possible after he has submitted an account to the Master, give notice in the manner prescribed by paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (3) of section forty that he has so submitted such account and that the account will lie open for inspection by the creditors of the estate at the place or places and during the period stated in the notice.

 

(3)Every such account and every duplicate thereof transmitted to a magistrate shall be open for the inspection by creditors of the estate in question at the office of the Master and of such magistrate during a period of fourteen days as from the date of publication of the said notice in the Gazette.

 

(4)A magistrate who has received a trustee's account shall cause to be affixed in a public place in or about his office a notice that he has received the account and that it will lie open for inspection in his office during a period stated in that notice.

 

(5)After the expiration of the said period the magistrate shall endorse upon the account a certificate (which shall be free from stamp duty) that the account was open in his office for inspection as hereinbefore provided, and shall transmit the account to the Master.