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[r. 92 cont.]
Notice to creditors to prove. R. 104.
Examination of proof. R. 105.
Form 65.
Appeal by creditor.
R. 106.
Companies.
but the Official Receiver shall first make a list of such proofs, and take a receipt thereon from the liquidator for such proofs.
Admission and Rejection of Proofs and Preferential Claims, and Appeal to the Court.
93. (1) Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance, and unless otherwise ordered by the court, the liquidator in any winding up may from time to time fix a certain day, which shall be not less than fourteen days from the date of the notice, on or before which the creditors of the company are to prove their debts or claims, and to establish any title they may have to priority under section 250 of the Ordinance or to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved or as the case may be from objecting to such distribution, and the Liquidator shall give notice in writing of the day so fixed by advertisement in such newspaper as he shall consider convenient, and in a winding up by the court to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs as a creditor, and who has not proved his debt, and to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs as a preferential creditor whose claim to be a preferential creditor has not been established and is not admitted, and in any other winding up to the last known address or place of abode of each person who, to the knowledge of the liquidator, claims to be a creditor or preferential creditor of the company and whose claim has not been admitted.
(2) All the rules hereinafter set out as to admission and rejection of proofs shall apply with the necessary variation to any such claim to priority as aforesaid.
94. The liquidator shall examine every proof of debt lodged with him, and the grounds of the debt, and in writing admit or reject it, in whole or in part, or require further evidence in support of it. If he rejects a proof he shall state in writing to the creditor the grounds of the rejection.
95. If a creditor or contributory is dissatisfied with the decision of the liquidator in respect of a proof, the court may, on the application of the creditor or contributory, reverse or vary the decision; but, subject to the power of the
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