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Railway Companies Act 1867
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6Preparation and filing of Scheme of Arrangement.
Where a Company are unable to meet their Engagements with their Creditors the Directors may prepare a Scheme of Arrangement between the Company and their Creditors (with or without Provisions for settling and defining any Rights of Shareholders of the Company as among themselves, and for raising, if necessary, additional Share and Loan Capital, or either of them), and may file the same in the Court of Chancery in England or in Ireland, according to the Situation of the principal Office of the Company, with a Declaration in Writing under the Common Seal of the Company to the Effect that the Company are unable to meet their Engagements with their Creditors, and with an Affidavit of the Truth of such Declaration made by the Chairman of the Board of Directors and by the other Directors, or the major' Part in Number of them, to the best of their respective Judgment and Belief.
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