59 & 60 Vict.
C. 45.

552

SECRETARIAL PRACTICE
In exercising his powers under this section, the Lord Chancellor
shall provide that a county court shall not have jurisdiction under
this Act unless it has for the time being jurisdiction in bankruptcy.

An order made under this provision shall not affect any juris-
diction or powers vested in any county court under or by virtue of
the Stannaries Jurisdiction (Abolition) Act, 1896.

(6) Every court in England having jurisdiction under this Act
to wind up a company shall for the purposes of that jurisdiction have
all the powers of the High Court, and every prescribed officer of the
court shall perform any duties which an officer of the High Court
may discharge by order of the judge thereof or otherwise in relation
to the winding up of a company.

(7) Nothing in this section shall invalidate a proceeding by
reason of its being taken in a wrong court.
(8) For the purposes of this section, the expression ‘registered
office” means the place which has longest been the registered office
of the company during the six months immediately preceding the
presentation of the petition for winding-up.

Conduct of 164.—(1) Subject to any order made under section fifty-seven
winding » High OF section sixty A. of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation)
Dou in Eng- Act, 1925, and without prejudice to the power to make orders of
15 & 16 Geo. 5. transfer under that Act, the jurisdiction of the High Court to wind
C. 49 up companies in England under this Act shall, as the Lord Chancellor
may from time to time by general order direct, be exercised either
by such judge or judges of the Chancery Division of the High Court
as the Lord Chancellor may assign for the purpose or by the judge
or judges for the time being exercising the bankruptcy jurisdiction
of the High Court.
(2) The Lord Chancellor may give directions as aforesaid
either generally or with respect to any specified classes of cases.
(3) Provision may be made by general rules for regulating the
exercise of the said jurisdiction of the High Court under this Act.

Transfer of pro- 165.—(1) The winding up of a company by the court in England

sings on or any proceedings in the winding up may at any time and at any

another and ~~ Stage, and either with or without application from any of the parties

statement of thereto, be transferred from one court to another court, or may be

ibid UY retained in the court in which the proceedings were commenced,
although it may not be the court in which they ought to have been
commenced.
(2) The powers of transfer given by the foregoing provisions
of this section may, subject to and in accordance with general
rules, be exercised by the Lord Chancellor or by any judge of the
High Court having jurisdiction under this Act, or, as regards any
case within the jurisdiction of any other court, by the judge of that
court.