SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9U.K.Abolition of requirements to hold meetings; opted-out creditors

PART 1 U.K.Company insolvency

Winding-upU.K.

38U.K.For section 146 (compulsory winding-up - duty to summon final meeting) substitute—

146Final account

(1)This section applies where a company is being wound up by the court and the liquidator is not the official receiver.

(2)If it appears to the liquidator that the winding up of the company is for practical purposes complete the liquidator must make up an account of the winding up, showing how it has been conducted and the company's property has been disposed of.

(3)The liquidator must—

(a)send a copy of the account to the company's creditors (other than opted-out creditors), and

(b)give the company's creditors (other than opted-out creditors) a notice explaining the effect of section 174(4)(d) and how they may object to the liquidator's release.

(4)The liquidator must during the relevant period send to the court and the registrar of companies—

(a)a copy of the account, and

(b)a statement of whether any of the company's creditors objected to the liquidator's release.

(5)The relevant period is the period of 7 days beginning with the day after the last day of the period prescribed by the rules as the period within which the creditors may object to the liquidator's release.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 9 para. 38 in force at 26.5.2015 for specified purposes by S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(d)

I2Sch. 9 para. 38 in force at 6.4.2017 for E.W. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/1020, reg. 4(e) (with reg. 5) (as amended by S.I. 2017/363, reg. 3)

I3Sch. 9 para. 38 in force at 6.4.2019 for S. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2019/816, reg. 4(c) (with reg. 5)