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Section 159 — Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act: Where bankrupt is a corporation

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Where a bankrupt is a corporation, the officer executing the assignment, or such officer of the corporation, or person who has, or has had, directly or indirectly, control in fact of the corporation as the official receiver may specify, shall attend before the official receiver for examination and shall perform all of the duties imposed on a bankrupt by section 158, and, in case of failure to do so, the officer or person is punishable as though that officer or person were the bankrupt.

Official source: laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

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