Section 57: Power to appoint Official Receiver

57. Power to appoint Official Receiver.___(1) The 2[Provincial Government] may appoint such persons as it thinks fit (to be called “Official Receivers”) to be receivers under this Act within such local limits as it may prescribe. (2) Where any Official Receiver has been so appointed for the local limits of the jurisdiction of any Court having jurisdiction under this Act, he shall be the receiver for the purpose of every order appointing a receiver or an interim receiver issued by any such Court, unless the Court for special reasons otherwise directs. (3) Any sum payable under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 56 in respect of the services of an Official Receiver shall be credited3 to such fund as the 2[Provincial Government] may direct. (4) Every Official Receiver shall receive such remuneration out of the said fund or otherwise as the 2[Provincial Government] may fix in this behalf, and no remuneration whatever beyond that so fixed shall be received by the Official Receiver as such3.

Effective date: 1920-01-01

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