Companies Act 1985

440Power of Secretary of State to present winding-up petition

If in the case of a body corporate liable to be wound up under this Act it appears to the Secretary of State from a report made by inspectors under section 437, or from information or documents obtained under section 447 or 448 below, that it is expedient in the public interest that the body should be wound up, he may (unless the body is already being wound up by the court) present a petition for it to be so wound up if the court thinks it just and equitable for it to be so.