NSW Bankruptcy reducing to 1 year

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Bald1974

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28 July 2018
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Hi,
I heard bankruptcy default time may be reduced to 1 year instead of 3.
When can this be possible?
Thanks
 

Docupedia

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7 October 2020
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The law would have to be changed first. There is no certainty that that is going to happen.

A bill was put up in 2017 to do this - it floundered.

The Attorney-General put out a recent discussion paper that included this topic (published on 13 January 2021). The discussion papers notes some issues with reducing the bankruptcy period to 1 year - notably that the period would be abused by 'rogue, reckless and repeat bankrupts'. There was 'mixed feedback'. Strangely, I can't find a due date for response. I could be wrong, but this would appear to indicate that it's a 'we want to know what people are thinking' exercise rather than a concerted effort to inform the shaping of legislation.

The TLDR version: No idea. May never come.