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Bad Debts Act 1990

SAMOA

BAD DEBTS ACT 1990

Arrangement of Provisions

1. Short Title

2. Irrecoverable debts written off

Schedule

BAD DEBTS ACT 1990

1990 No. 5

AN ACT to write off certain debt and investment balances due to the Treasury Fund together with accrued interest thereon.

[Assent and commencement date: 30 July 1990]

1. Short title – This Act may be cited as the Bad Debts Act 1990.

2. Irrecoverable debts written off – (1) The debts, together with interest thereon, and investment balances due to the Treasury Fund as set out in the Schedule being considered to be irrecoverable are written off.
(2) Nothing in this Act operates to extinguish the liability of a debtor for payment of any debt, interest or investment balance written off by this Act.

SCHEDULE
(Section 2)

REVISION NOTES 2008 – 2012

This Act has been revised under section 5 of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008.

The following general revisions have been made:

(a) Amendments have been made to conform to modern drafting styles and to use modern language as applied in the laws of Samoa.

(b) Amendments have been made to up-date references to offices, officers and statutes.

(c) Insertion of the commencement date (being the date of assent)

(d) Other minor editing has been done in accordance with the lawful powers of the Attorney General.

(i) “shall be” changed to “is”
(ii) “notwithstanding” changed to “despite”
(iii) “hereby” removed
(iv) Authorising section of the Schedule to the Act is inserted in the Schedule (under its heading “Schedule”),
(v) Correction of typographical errors (e.g. in section 1, for “cites” substituted “cited”).

There were no amendments to this Act since the publication of the Consolidated and Revised Statutes of Samoa 2007.

This Act has been revised in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the Attorney General under the authority of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008 and is the official version of this Act as at 31 December 2012. It is an offence to publish this Act without approval or to make any unauthorised change to an electronic version of this Act.

Aumua Ming Leung Wai
Attorney General of Samoa

Revised in 2008 by the Legislative Drafting Division under the supervision of Teleiai Lalotoa Sinaalamaimaleula Mulitalo (Parliamentary Counsel)

Revised in 2009, 2010 and 2011 by the Legislative Drafting Division under the supervision of Papalii Malietau Malietoa (Parliamentary Counsel).

Revised in 2012 by the Legislative Drafting Division.

The Bad Debts Act 1990 is administered by the Ministry of Finance.