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Bankruptcy Act of 1898

June 18, 1934 amendment of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898


Act of June 18, 1934, ch. 580, 48 Stat. 991

An Act To amend section 4 of “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto”, approved June 7, 1934

Seventy-Third Congress, Session II · Approved June 18, 1934

This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying. The authoritative text is the United States Statutes at Large.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4(a)(7) of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States’, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto”, approved June 7, 1934, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said clause (7) after the words “Provided further, That the provisions of this clause (7) shall apply to estates pending at the time of the enactment of this amendatory Act”, the words “in which the time for filing such claims has not expired.”

Approved, June 18, 1934.