Chapter:	6	Title:	BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 158 of 1998
Section:	5	Heading:	Other preliminary conditions	Version Date:	01/04/1998

(1) Where a bankruptcy petition relating to a debtor is presented by a person who is entitled to present a petition under 2 or more paragraphs of section 3(1), the petition is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as a petition under whichever of those paragraphs is specified in the petition.
(2) A bankruptcy petition shall not be withdrawn without the leave of the court.
(3) The court has a general power, if it appears to it appropriate to do so on the grounds that there has been a contravention of rules or for any other reason, to dismiss a bankruptcy petition or to stay such a petition and, where it stays such a petition, it may do so on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.
(4) Without prejudice to subsection (3), where a petition under section 3(1)(a), (b) or (c) in respect of a debtor is pending at a time when a criminal bankruptcy order is made against him, or is presented after such an order has been so made, the court may on the application of the Official Receiver dismiss the petition if it appears to it appropriate to do so.