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Report by

Official
Receiver.

Ch. 31. No. 1.] Compantes.

or within the said year was, an officer of the company
to which the statement relates.

(3) The statement shall be submitted within fourteen
days from the relevant date, or within such extended time
as the Official Receiver or the Court may for special reasons
appoint.

(4) Any person making or concurring in making the
statement and affidavit required by this section shall be
allowed, and shall be paid by the Official Receiver or
provisional liquidator, as the case may be, out of the assets
of the company, such costs and expenses incurred in and
about the preparation and making of the statement and
afidavit as the Official Receiver may consider reasonable,
subject to an appeal to the Court.

(5) If any person, without reasonable excuse, makes
default in complying with the requirements of this section,
he shall be Hable to a fine of fifty dollars for every day
during which the default continue.

(6) Any person stating himself in writing to be a
creditor or contributory of the company shall be entitled
by himself or by his agent at all reasonable time., on
payment of the prescribed fee, to inspect the statement
submitted in pursuance of this section, and to a copy thereof
or extract therefrom.

(7) Any person untruthfully so stating himself to be
a creditor or contributory shall be guilty of a contempt of
Court and shall, on the application of the liquidator or of the
Official Receiver, be punishable accordingly.

(8) In this section the expression “ the relevant
date means in a case where a provisional liquidator is
appointed, the date of his appointment, and, in a case where
no such appointment is made, the date of the winding up
order.

174. (1) Ina case where a winding up order is made, the
Official Receiver shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of
the statement to be submitted under the last foregoing
section, or, in a case where the Court orders that no state-
ment shall be submitted, as soon as practicable after the
date of the order, submit a preliminary report to the Court —

(a) as to the amount of capital issued, subscribed,