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Insolvency Act 1986, Section 139 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 09 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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139 Choice of liquidator at meetings of creditors and contributories.E+W+S
(1)This section applies where a company is being wound up by the court and separate meetings of the company’s creditors and contributories are summoned for the purpose of choosing a person to be liquidator of the company.
(2)The creditors and the contributories at their respective meetings may nominate a person to be liquidator.
(3)The liquidator shall be the person nominated by the creditors or, where no person has been so nominated, the person (if any) nominated by the contributories.
(4)In the case of different persons being nominated, any contributory or creditor may, within 7 days after the date on which the nomination was made by the creditors, apply to the court for an order either—
(a)appointing the person nominated as liquidator by the contributories to be a liquidator instead of, or jointly with, the person nominated by the creditors; or
(b)appointing some other person to be liquidator instead of the person nominated by the creditors.
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