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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.