WINDING-UP RULES 
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thinks fit may order that no remuneration be allowed to the person 
by whom or on whose behalf the solicitation was exercised notwith- 
standing any resolution of the Committee of Inspection or of the 
creditors or contributories to the contrary. 
150. A creditor or a contributory in a winding-up by the Court 
may appoint the Official Receiver or Liquidator and in a voluntary 
winding-up the Liquidator or if there is no Liquidator the Chairman 
of a meeting to act as his general or special proxy. 
Proxies to 
Official Receiver 
or Liquidator 
151. No person acting either under a general or a special proxy Holder of proxy 
shall vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or hoyio ote on 
indirectly place himself, his partner or employer in a position to be is financially 
receive any remuneration out of the estate of the Company other. rested 
wise than as a creditor rateably with the other creditors of the 
Company: Provided that where any person holds special proxies to 
vote for an application to the Court in favour of the appointment of 
himself as Liquidator he mav use the said proxies and vote accord: 
inglv. 
152. —(1) A proxy intended to be used at the first meeting of 
creditors or contributories, or an adjournment thereof, shall be 
lodged with the Official Receiver not later than the time mentioned 
for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting or the adjourned 
meeting, which time shall be not earlier than twelve o’clock at noon 
of the day but one before, nor later than twelve o’clock at noon of the 
day before the day appointed for such meeting, unless the Court 
otherwise directs. 
Proxies. 
Forms 80 and 81. 
(2) In every other case a proxy shall be lodged with the Official 
Receiver or Liquidator in a winding-up by the Court; with the 
Company at its Registered Office for a meeting under section 238 of 
the Act, and with the Liquidator or if there is no Liquidator with the 
person named in the notice convening the meeting to receive the 
same in a voluntary winding-up not later than four o’clock in the 
afternoon of the day before the meeting or adjourned meeting at which 
it is to be used. 
(3) No person shall be appointed a general or special nrc 
who is a minor. 
153. Where an Official Receiver who holds any proxies cannot 
attend the meeting for which they are given, he may, in writing, 
depute some person under his official control to use the proxies 
on his behalf and in such marner as he mav direct. 
154. The proxy of a creditor blind or incapable of writing may 
be accepted, if such creditor has attached his signature or mark there- 
to in the presence of a witness, who shall add to his signature his 
description and residence; provided that all insertions in the proxy 
are in the handwriting of the witness, and such witness shall have 
certified at the foot of the proxy that all such insertions have been 
made by him at the request and in the presence of the creditor before 
he attached his signature or mark 
Use of proxies bv 
deputy 
Filling in where 
creditor blind or 
incapable.