Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act

Marginal note:Redirection of mail

• 35 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the trustee may, by sending to the Canada Post Corporation

  • (a) a notice in the prescribed form, and

  • (b) a copy of the trustee’s certificate of appointment,

  request that any mail addressed to a bankrupt that is directed to any place referred to in the notice be redirected or sent by the Canada Post Corporation to the trustee or to such other person as the trustee may designate and when Canada Post Corporation receives those documents, it shall so redirect or send that mail.

• Marginal note:Permission for residence

  (2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) may refer to a bankrupt’s residence only where the trustee has, on application, obtained permission from the court.

• Marginal note:Limitation of time

  (3) Where a bankrupt is an individual, a notice referred to in subsection (1) is operative only during the three month period immediately following the date of bankruptcy unless the court, on application, extends that period on such terms as the court considers fit.