WINDING-UP RULES

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thinks fit may order that no remuneration be allowed to the person
by whom or on whose behalf the solicitation was exercised notwith-
standing any resolution of the Committee of Inspection or of the
creditors or contributories to the contrary.
150. 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.

Proxies to
Official Receiver
or Liquidator

151. No person acting either under a general or a special proxy Holder of proxy
shall vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or hoyio ote on
indirectly place himself, his partner or employer in a position to be is financially
receive any remuneration out of the estate of the Company other. rested
wise 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 mav use the said proxies and vote accord:
inglv.
152. —(1) A proxy intended to be used at the first meeting of
creditors or contributories, or an adjournment thereof, 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 earlier 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.

Proxies.
Forms 80 and 81.

(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 meeting under section 238 of
the Act, and with the Liquidator or if there is no Liquidator with the
person named in the notice convening the meeting to receive 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 general or special nrc
who is a minor.

153. Where an 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 marner as he mav direct.
154. The proxy of a creditor blind or incapable of writing may
be accepted, if such creditor has attached his signature or mark there-
to in the presence of a witness, who shall add to his signature his
description and residence; provided that all insertions in the proxy
are in the handwriting of the witness, and such witness shall have
certified at the foot of the proxy that all such insertions have been
made by him at the request and in the presence of the creditor before
he attached his signature or mark

Use of proxies bv
deputy

Filling in where
creditor blind or
incapable.