Companies Act (Cap. 386)
Companies Act (Cap. 386), article 285
285. (1) The Registrar shall, on receiving the account and the
scheme of distribution, if any, together with the auditors’ report
and, in respect of each such meeting as is referred to in article 284,
the return or returns as mentioned in that article, forthwith register
them, and on the expiration of three months from the publication of
the notice referred to in article 401(1)(e), the Registrar shall strike
the name of the company off the register:
Provided that the court may, on an application filed within
the said period of three months by the liquidator or by any other
person who appears to the court to have an interest, make an order
deferring the date at which the name of the company shall be struck
off the register for such time and subject to such conditions as the
court may provide.
(2) When an order by the court is made under the proviso to
sub-article (1), the Registrar of Courts shall forthwith forward a
copy of it to the Registrar for registration and the Registrar shall
defer applying the provisions of sub-article (1) in accordance with
the order given by the court referred to in that sub-article.
Chapter IV - Provisions applicable to every voluntary
winding up
Provisions
applicable to every
voluntary winding
up.
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