Part XXIII Oversea Companies
CHAPTER IV WINDING UP ETC.
F1703Q Particulars to be delivered to the registrar: insolvency proceedings etc.
(1)
Where a company to which this Chapter applies becomes subject to any of the following proceedings (other than proceedings for the winding up of the company), that is to say, insolvency proceedings or an arrangement or composition or any analogous proceedings, it shall deliver to the registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form containing the following particulars—
(a)
the name of the company;
(b)
whether the proceedings are by order of a court and, if so, the name and address of the court and the date of the order;
(c)
if the proceedings are not by order of a court, as a result of what action the proceedings have been commenced;
(d)
whether the proceedings have been instigated by:
(i)
the company’s members;
(ii)
the company’s creditors; or
(iii)
some other person or persons,
and, in the case of (iii) the identity of that person or those persons shall be given; and
(e)
the date on which the proceedings became or will become effective.
(2)
Where a company to which this Chapter applies ceases to be subject to any of the proceedings mentioned in subsection (1) it shall deliver to the registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form containing the following particulars:
(a)
the name of the company; and
(b)
the date on which it ceased to be subject to the proceedings.
(3)
The period allowed for delivery of a return under subsection (1) or (2) is 14 days from the date on which the company becomes subject, or (as the case may be) ceases to be subject to the proceedings concerned.
(4)
The obligation to deliver a return under subsection (1) or (2) shall apply in respect of each branch which the company has in Great Britain (though where the company has more than one branch in a part of Great Britain a return which gives the branch numbers of two or more such branches is to be regarded as a return in respect of each branch whose number is given).