678 | SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
of the company has been disposed of, and thereupon shall call a 
general meeting of the company for the purpose of laying before 
it the account, and giving any explanation thereof. 
(2) The meeting shall be called by advertisement in the Gazette, 
specifying the time, place, and object thereof, and published one 
month at least before the meeting. 
(3) Within one week after the meeting, the liquidator shall 
send to the registrar of companies a copy of the account, and shall 
make a return to him of the holding of the meeting and of its date, 
and if the copy is not sent or the return is not made in accordance 
with this subsection the liquidator shall be liable to a fine not 
exceeding five pounds for every dav during which the default con- 
tinues: 
Provided that, if a quorum is not present at the meeting, the 
liquidator shall, in lieu of the return hereinbefore mentioned, make 
a return that the meeting was duly summoned and that no quorum 
was present thereat, and upon such a return being made the pro- 
visions of this subsection as to the making of the return shall be 
deemed to have been complied with. 
1 (4) The registrar on receiving the account and either of the 
returns hereinbefore mentioned shall forthwith register them, and 
on the expiration of three months from the registration of the 
return the company shall be deemed to be dissolved: 
Provided that the court may, on the application of the liquidator 
or of any other person who appears to the court to be interested, 
make an order deferring the date at which the dissolution of the 
company is to take effect for such time as the court thinks fit. 
(5) It shall be the duty of the person on whose application an 
order of the court under this section is made, within seven days 
after the making of the order, to deliver to the registrar an office 
copy of the order for registration, and if that person fails so to do he 
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every dav during 
which the default continues. 
Provisions applicable to a Creditors’ Voluntary Winding Up. 
Provisions ap- 237. The provisions contained in the eight sections of this Act 
lla 8 next following shall apply in relation to a creditors’ voluntary 
ing up. winding up. 
Meeting of 238.—(1) The company shall cause a meeting of the creditors 
Creditors, of the company to be summoned for the day, or the day next follow- 
ing the day, on which there is to be held the meeting at which the 
resolution for voluntary winding up is to be proposed, and shall 
cause the notices of the said meeting of creditors to be sent by post 
to the creditors simultaneously with the sending of the notices of 
the said meeting of the company. 
(2) The company shall cause notice of the meeting of the 
creditors to be advertised once in the Gazette and once at least in 
two local newspapers circulating in the district where the registered 
office or principal place of business of the companv is situate.