Companies. [Ch. 31. No. 1.

171. An order for winding up a company shall operate
in favour of all the creditors and of all the contributories
of the company as if made on the joint petition of a creditor
and of a contributory.

Official Receiver.

172. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term

Official Receiver ’’ means the Official Receiver attached
to the Court for bankruptcy purposes, and includes any
Assistant Official Receiver.

173. (1) Where the Court has made a winding up order
or appointed a provisional liquidator, there shall, unless
the Court thinks fit to order otherwise and so orders, be
made out and submitted to the Official Receiver a statement
as to the affairs of the company in the prescribed form,
verified by affidavit, and showing the particulars of its
assets, debts, and liabilities, the names, residences, and
occupations of its creditors, the securities held by them
respectively, the dates when the securities were respectively
given, and such further or other information as may be
prescribed or as the Official Receiver may require.

(2) The statement shall be submitted and verified
by one or more of the persons who are at the relevant date
the directors and by the person who is at that date the
secretary or other chief officer of the company, or by such
of the persons hereinafter in this subsection mentioned as
the Official Receiver, subject to the direction of the Court,
may require to submit and verify the statement, that is to
say, persons—

(a) who are or have been directors or officers of the

company ;

(6) who have taken part in the formation of the
company at any time within one year before the
relevant date;

(c) who are in the employment of the company, or
have been in the employment of the company within the
said year, and are in the opinion of the Official Receiver
capable of giving the information required;

(d) who are or have been within the said year
officers of or in the employment of a company, which is,

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Effect of
winding up
order.

Official
Receiver in
bankruptcy
to be Official
Receiver for
winding up
purposes.
Statement of
company’s
affairs to be
submitted to
Official
Receiver.