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resolution shall be deemed to be passed when a maj ority in number
and value of the contributories present personally or by proxy, and
voting on the resolution, have voted in favour of the resolution, the
value of the contributories being determined according to the
number of votes conferred on each contributory by the regulations
of the Company.

133. The Official Receiver or as the case may be the Liquidator
shall file with the Registrar a copy certified by him of every resolution
of a meeting of creditors or contributories in a winding-up by the
Court.

Copy of resolu-
tion to be filed,

Non-reception
of notice by a
reditor.

134. Where a meeting of creditors or contributories is sum-
moned by notice the proceedings and resolutions at the meeting shall
anless the Court otherwise orders be valid notwithstanding that
some creditors or contributories may not have received the notice
sent to them.
135. The Chairman may with the consent of the meeting adjourn
it from time to time and from place to place, but the adjourned
meeting shall be held at the same place as the original meeting unless
‘n the resolution for adjournment another place is specified or unless
the Court otherwise orders.

136.—(1) A meeting may not act for any purpose except the
election of a chairman, the proving of debts and the adjournment
of the meeting unless there are present or represented thereat at
least three creditors entitled to vote or three contributories or ali
the creditors entitled to vote or all the contributories if the number
of creditors entitled to vote or the contributories as the case may be
shall not exceed three.

(2) If within half an hour from the time appointed for the
meeting a quorum of creditors or contributories is not present or
represented the meeting shall be adjourned to the same day in the
following week at the same time and place or to such other day or
time or place as the chairman may appoint but so that the day
appointed shall be not less than seven or more than twenty-one
days from the day from which the meeting was adjourned.

Creditors 137. In the case of a first meeting of creditors or of an adjournment
entitled to vote. thereof a person shall not be entitled to vote as a creditor unless he
has duly lodged with the Official Receiver not later than the time
mentioned for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting or
adjourned meeting a proof of the debt which he claims to be due tc
him from the Company. In the case of a Court meeting or Liquida-
tor’s meeting of creditors a person shall not be entitled to vote as a
creditor unless he has lodged with the Official Receiver or Liquidator
a proof of the debt which he claims to be due to him from the
Company and such proof has been admitted wholly or in part before
the date on which the meeting is held. Provided that this and the
next four following rules shall not apply to a Court meeting of
creditors held prior to the first meeting of creditors. This Rule shall
not apply to any creditors or class of creditors who bv virtue of the

Juorum.