Section 33, The Bankruptcy Act, 2009

(1) Demands in the nature of unliquidated damages arisingotherwise than by reason of contract, promise or breach of trust shall not be provable in bankruptcy. (2) A person having notice of any act of bankruptcy against the debtor shall not prove in bankruptcy for any debt or liability contracted by the debtor subsequent to the date of his having the notice. (3) Unless otherwise provided, all debts and liabilities, present or future, certain or contingent, to which the debtor is subject at the date of the receiving order, or to which he may become subject before his discharge by reason of any obligation incurred before the date of the receiving order, shall be deemed to be debts provable in (4) An estimate shall be made by the trustee of the value of any debt or liability provable which by reason of its being subject to any contingency or contingencies, or for any other reason, does not bear a certain value. (5) Any person aggrieved by any estimate made by the trustee may appeal to the court. (6) If, in the opinion of the court, the value of the debt or liability is incapable of being fairly estimated, the court may make an order to that effect, and the debt or liability shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a debt not provable in bankruptcy. (7) If, in the opinion of the court, the value of the debt or liability is capable of being fairly estimated, the court may direct the value to be assessed before the court itself and may give all necessary directions for this purpose; and the amount of the value when assessed shall be deemed to be a debt provable in bankruptcy. 32 33 Automatic discharge of Description of debts provable in (8) In this section, “liability” includes - (a) any compensation for work or labour done; (b) any obligation or possibility of an obligation to pay money or money’s worth, on the breach of any express or implied covenant, contract, agreement or undertaking, whether the breach does or does not occur, or is or is not likely to occur or is capable of occurring, before the discharge of the debtor; (c) any express or implied engagement, agreement or undertaking, to pay, or capable of resulting in the payment of money or money’s worth, whether the payment is, as respects amount, fixed or unliquidated, as respects time, present or future, certain or dependent on any one contingency or on two or more contingencies, or, as to mode of valuation capable of being ascertained by fixed rules or as a matter of opinion.