1200 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31, 1936.

Liquidator

to furnish information to Official Receiver.

R. 197.

Form 97.

Official Receiver

may call for verified

accounts.

R. 198.

Foms 92 to 96.

Application

to the Court

184. In a voluntary winding-up or in a winding-up under the supervision of the Court, every person who has acted as Liquidator of any Company, whether the liquidation has been concluded or not, shall furnish to the Official Receiver parti- culars of any money in his hands or under his control repre- senting unclaimed or undistributed assets of the Company and such other particulars as the Official Receiver may require for the purpose of ascertaining or getting in any money payable into the Companies Liquidation Account at the bank. The Official Receiver may require such particulars to be verified by affidavit.

185.-(1) In a voluntary winding-up or in a winding-up under the supervision of the Court, the Official Receiver may at any time order any such person to submit an account verified by affidavit of the sums received and paid by him as Liquida- tor of the Company and may direct and enforce an audit of the account.

(2) For the purposes of section 271 of the Ordinance, and the Rules, the Court shall have, and, at the instance of the Official Receiver, may exercise all the powers conferred by the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, with respect to the discovery and realisation of the property of a debtor, and the provisions of Part I of that Ordinance with respect thereto shall, with any necessary modification, apply to proceedings under sec- tion 271 of the Ordinance.

186. An application by the Official Receiver for the pur- for enforcing pose of ascertaining and getting in money payable into the bank pursuant to section 271 of the Ordinance, shall be made by motion.

an account,

and getting

in money.

R. 199.

Application

for payment out by

person

entitled.

R. 200.

Application by Liquid- ator for

payment out.

R. 201.

Proceedings for release of Liquidator.

R. 202.

Forms 98, 99 and 100.

187. An application by a person claiming to be entitled to any money paid into the bank in pursuance of section 271 of the Ordinance, shall be made in such form and manner as the Official Receiver may from time to time direct, and shall, unless the Official Receiver otherwise directs, be accompanied by the certificate of the Liquidator that the person claiming is entitled and such further evidence as the Official Receiver may direct.

188. A Liquidator who requires to make payments out of money paid into the bank in pursuance of section 271 of the Ordinance, either by way of distribution or in respect of the cost and expenses of the proceedings, shall apply in such form and manner as the Official Receiver may direct, and the Official Receiver may thereupon either make an order for pay- ment to the Liquidator of the sum required by him for the purposes aforesaid, or may direct cheques to be issued to the Liquidator for transmission to the persons to whom the pay. ments are to be made.

Release of Liquidator in a Winding-up by the Court.

189.—(1) A Liquidator in a winding-up by the Court before making application to the Court for his release, shall give notice of his intention so to do to all the creditors who have proved their debts and to all the contributories, and shall send with the notice a summary of all receipts and payments in the winding-up.

(2) When the Court has granted to a Liquidator his release, a notice of the order granting the release shall be gazetted. The Liquidator shall provide the requisite payment for the Gazette, which he may charge against the Company's assets.

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