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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31,

1936.

(3) Immediately after the expiration of the time fixed by Form 71. this Rule for appealing against the decision of the Liquidator he shall proceed to declare a dividend, and shall give notice to the Official Receiver (in order that the same may be gazetted), and shall also send a notice of dividend to each creditor whose proof has been admitted.

(4) If it becomes necessary, in the opinion of the Liquida- tor and the Committee of Inspection, to postpone the declara- tion of the dividend beyond the limit of two months, the Li- quidator shall give a fresh notice of his intention to declare a dividend to the Official Receiver in order that the same may be gazetted; but it shall not be necessary for the Liquidator to give a fresh notice to such of the creditors mentioned in the statement of affairs as have not proved their debts. In all other respects the same procedure shall follow the fresh notice as would have followed the original notice.

and 69.

(5) Upon the declaration of a dividend the Liquidator shall Forms 68 forthwith transmit to the Official Receiver a list of the proofs filed with the Registrar under Rule 101, which list shall be in the Form 68 or 69 in the Appendix as the case may be, and the Liquidator shall, if so required by the Official Receiver, transmit to him, office copies of all lists of proofs filed by him up to the date of the declaration of the dividend.

(6) Dividends may at the request and risk of the person to whom they are payable be transmitted to him by post.

(7) If a person to whom dividends are payable desires Form 72. that they shall be paid to some other person he may lodge with the Liquidator a document in the Form 72 which shall be a sufficient authority for payment of the dividend to the person therein named.

(8) The Official Receiver when he is Liquidator shall cause to be gazetted notice of his intention to declare a dividend and notice of his declaration thereof, and shall also at the same time give to creditors notice of such intention or of such declaration in like manner as notice thereof is required to be given by a Liquidator other than the Official Receiver.

143. Every order by which the Liquidator in a winding- up by the Court is authorised to make a return to contributories of the Company shall, unless the Court shall otherwise direct, contain or have appended thereto a Schedule or List (which the Liquidator shall prepare) setting out in a tabular form the full names and addresses of the persons to whom the return is to be paid, and the amount of money payable to each person, and particulars of the transfers of shares (if any) which have. been made or the variations in the list of contributories which have arisen since the date of the settlement of the list of con- tributories and such other information as may be requisite to enable the return to be made. The Schedule or List shall be in the Form 74 with such variations as circumstances shall require, and the Liquidator shall send a notice of return to each contributory.

Attendance and Appearance of Parties.

Return of contribu

capital to

tories. R. 118.

Forms 73

and 74.

144.--(1) Every person for the time being on the list of Attendance contributories of the Company, and every person whose proof at proceed-

ings. has been admitted shall be at liberty, at his own expense, to R. 155. attend proceedings, and shall be entitled, upon payment of the costs occasioned thereby, to have notice of all such proceed- ings as he shall by written request desire to have notice of: but if the Court shall be of opinion that the attendance of any such person upon any proceedings has occasioned any addi

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