Effect of order of discharge

(1) An order of discharge shall not release the bankrupt, (a) from any debt on a recognisance nor from any debt with which the bankrupt may be chargeable at the suit of the Government or of any person for any offence against a statute relating to any branch of the public revenue, and he shall not be discharged from such excepted debts unless the Minister 36 certify in writing his consent to his being released therefrom; or (b) from any debt or liability incurred by means of any fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which he was a party, nor from any debt or liability whereof he has obtained forbearance by any fraud to which he was a party. (2) An order of discharge shall release the bankrupt from all other debts provable in bankruptcy. (3) An order of discharge shall be conclusive evidence of the bankruptcy and of the validity of the proceedings therein, and in any proceedings that may be instituted against a bankrupt who has obtained an order of discharge in respect of arty debt from which he is released by the order, the bankrupt may plead that the cause of action occurred before his discharge, and may give this Act and the special matter in (4) An order of discharge shall not release any person who at the date of the receiving order was a partner or co-trustee with the bankrupt or was jointly bound or had made any joint contract with him, or any person who was surety or in the nature of a surety for him. (5) An order of discharge shall not release the bankrupt from any liability under a judgment against him in an action for seduction, or under an affiliation order, or under a judgment against him as a co- respondent in a matrimonial cause, except to such an extent and under such conditions as the court expressly orders in respect of such liability. of