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SECRETARIAL PRACTICE
(2) The statement shall be submitted and verified by one or
more of the persons who are at the relevant date the directors and
by the person who is at that date the secretary or other chief officer
of the company, or by such of the persons hereinafter in this sub-
section mentioned as the official receiver, subject to the direction
of the court, may require to submit and verify the statement, that
is to say, persons—

(a) who are or have been directors or officers of the company;

(b) who have taken part in the formation of the company at

any time within one year before the relevant date;

who are in the employment of the company, or have been
in the employment of the company within the said year,
and are in the opinion of the official receiver capable of
giving the information required;

who are or have been within the said year officers of or in
the employment of a company, which is, or within the said
year was, an officer of the company to which the statement
relates.

(3) The statement shall be submitted within fourteen days
from the relevant date, or within such extended time as the official
receiver or the court may for special reasons appoint.

(4) Any person making or concurring in making the statement
and affidavit required by this section shall be allowed, and shall be
paid by the official receiver or provisional liquidator, as the case
may be, out of the assets of the company, such costs and expenses
incurred in and about the preparation and making of the statement
and affidavit as the official receiver may consider reasonable, subject
to an appeal to the court.

(5) If any person, without reasonable excuse, makes default
in complying with the requirements of this section, he shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during
which the default continues.

(d)

(6) Any person stating himself in writing to be a creditor or
contributory of the company shall be entitled by himself or by his
agent at all reasonable times, on payment of the prescribed fee,
to inspect the statement submitted in pursuance of this section,
and to a copy thereof or extract therefrom.

(7) Any person untruthfully so stating himself to be a creditor
or contributory shall be guilty of a contempt of court and shall, on
the application of the liquidator or of the official receiver, be punish-
able accordingly.

(8) In this section the expression ‘‘ the relevant date’ means in
a case where a provisional liquidator is appointed, the date of his
appointment, and, in a case where no such appointment is made,
the date of the winding up order.
Report by 182.—(1) In a case where a winding-up order is made, the official
official receiver. receiver shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of the statement
to be submitted under the last foregoing section, or, in a case where