222 Restriction on making winding-up order.E+W+S
(1)Where a petition for the winding up of a PPP company is presented by a person other than the Mayor, the court shall not make a winding-up order in relation to that company on that petition unless—
(a)notice of the petition has been served on the Mayor; and
(b)a period of at least fourteen days has elapsed since the service of that notice.
(2)Where a petition for the winding up of a PPP company has been presented, the Mayor may, at any time before a winding-up order is made on the petition, make an application to the court for a PPP administration order in relation to that company; and where such an application is made the court may, if it is satisfied as mentioned in section 221(1) above, make a PPP administration order instead of a winding-up order.
(3)Where, on a petition for the winding up of a PPP company, the court makes, or proposes to make, a PPP administration order by virtue of subsection (2) above, subsections (4) and (5) of section 9 of the M1Insolvency Act 1986 (powers on application for administration order) shall apply on the hearing of that petition as they apply on the hearing of a petition for an administration order.
(4)In this section the court has the same meaning as in section 220 above.
Commencement Information
I1S. 222 in force at 15.7.2003 by S.I. 2003/1920, art. 2(b)
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