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PARTS II TO VIICOMPANY INSOLVENCY; COMPANIES WINDING UP

PART VWINDING UP OF COMPANIES REGISTERED UNDER THE COMPANIES ORDERS

CHAPTER IVCREDITORS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP

Appointment of liquidator

86.—(1) The creditors and the company at their respective meetings mentioned in Article 84 may nominate a person to be liquidator for the purpose of winding up the company’s affairs and distributing its assets.

(2) 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 company.

(3) In the case of different persons being nominated, any director, member or creditor of the company may, within 7 days from the date on which the nomination was made by the creditors, apply to the High Court for an order either—

(a)directing that the person nominated as liquidator by the company shall be 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.