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Special
proxies.

Solicitation
by Liquida-
tor to obtain
proxic.

Proxies to
Otter

Reeciver o
Liquidator

older of
proxv not
to vote on
matter in
which he is
financially
interested,

DProxie.
Forms 74
and 75.

Use of
proxies by
deputy.

Ch. 31. No. 1.] Companues.

131. A creditor or a contributory may give a special proxy to any
person to vote at any specified meeting or adjournment thereof:—

(a) for or against the appointment or continuance in office of any

specified person as Liquidator or Member of the Committee of

Inspection; and

(b) on all questions relating to any matter other than those above

referred to and arising at the meeting or an adjournment thereof.

132. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that any
solicitation has been used by or on behalf of a Liquidator in obtaining
proxies or in procuring his appointment as Liquidator except by the
direction of a meeting of creditors or contributories, the Court if it thinks
fit may order that no remuneration be allowed to the person by whom
or on whose behalf the solicitation was exercised notwithstanding any
resolution of the Committee of Inspection or of the ereditors or
contributories to the contrary.

133. A creditor or a contributory in a winding up by the Court may
appoint the Official Receiver or Liquidator and in a voluntary winding up
the Liquidator or if there is no Liquidator the Chairman of a meeting to
act as his general or special proxy.

134. No person acting either under a general or a special proxy shall
vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place
himself, his partner or employer in a position to receive any remuneration
out of the estate of the company otherwise than as a creditor rateably
with the other creditors of the company: Provided that where any
person holds special proxies to vote for an application to the Court in
favour of the appointment of himself as Liquidator he may use the said
proxies and vote accordingly.

135. (1) A proxy intended to be used at the first mecting of creditors
or contributories, or an adjournment thercof, shall be lodged with the
Official Receiver not later than the time mentioned for that purpose in
the notice convening the meeting or the adjourned meeting, which time
shall be not earlicr than twelve o'clock at noon of the day but one before,
nor later than twelve o'clock at noon of the day before the day appointed
for such meeting, unless the Court otherwise directs.

(2) In every other case a proxy shall be lodged with the Official
Receiver or Liquidator in a winding up by the Court, with the company
at its registered office for a mecting under section 226 of the Ordinance,
and with the Liquidator or if there is no Liquidator with the person named
in the notice convening the meeting to reccive the same in a voluntary
winding up not later than four o'clock in the afternoon of the day before
the meeting or adjourned meeting at which it is to be used.

(3) No person shall be appointed a gencral or special proxy who
is a minor.

136. Where the Official Receiver who holds any proxies cannot attend
the meeting for which they are given, he may, in writing, depute some
person under his official control to use the proxies on his behalf and in
such manner as he may direct.