Secretarial practice

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Identifikator:: 1828236004

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249926

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Secretarial practice

Edition:: fourth edition

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: viii, 987 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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670 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE a 214.—(1) The court may, at any time after the appointment ot a pected of having provisional liquidator or the making of a winding-up order, summon Ww ha before it any officer of the company or person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company, or any person whom the court deems capable of giving information concerning the promotion, formation. trade, dealings, affairs, or property of the company. (2) The court may examine him on oath concerning the matters aforesaid, either by word of mouth or on written interrogatories, and may reduce his answers to writing and require him to sign them. (3) The court may require him to produce any books and papers in his custody or power relating to the company, but, where he claims any lien on books or papers produced by him, the pro- duction shall be without prejudice to that lien, and the court shall have jurisdiction in the winding up to determine all questions relat- ing to that lien. E" (4) If any person so summoned, after being tendered a reason- able sum for his expenses, refuses to come before the court at the time appointed, not having a lawful impediment (made known to the court at the time of its sitting, and allowed by it), the court may cause him to be apprehended and brought before the court for examination. Attendarice of 215. In the winding up by the court of a company registered in Sia of com- Scotland, the court shall have power to require the attendance of ings of creditors, any director or other officer of the company at any meeting of &c.. in Scotland. creditors or of contributories or of a committee of inspection for the purpose of giving information as to the trade. dealings, affairs or property of the company. Power in Eng- 216.—(1) Where an order has been made in England for winding ie order ap a company by the court, and the official receiver has made a tion of promo- further report under this Act stating that in his opinion a fraud has bs; directors, been committed by any person in the promotion or formation of the company, or by any director or other officer of the company in relation to the company since its formation, the court may, after consideration of the report, direct that that person, director or officer shall attend before the court on a day appointed by the court for that purpose, and be publicly examined as to the promotion or formation or the conduct of the business of the company, or as to his conduct and dealings as director or officer thereof. (2) The official receiver shall take part in the examination, and for that purpose may, if specially authorised by the Board of Trade in that behalf, employ a solicitor with or without counsel. (3) The liquidator, where the official receiver is not the liqui- dator, and any creditor or contributory, may also take part in the examination either personally or by solicitor or counsel. (4) The court may put such questions to the person examined as the court thinks fit.

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