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(1)In a winding up the preferential debts listed in Part I of Schedule 4 to this Act shall be paid in priority to all other debts; and Part II of that Schedule shall have effect for the interpretation of the said Part I.
(2)Preferential debts—
(a)shall rank equally among themselves after the expenses of the winding up and shall be paid in full, unless the assets are insufficient to meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions; and
(b)so far as the assets of the company available for payment of general creditors are insufficient to meet them, shall have priority over the claims of holders of debentures secured by, or holders of, any floating charge created by the company, and shall be paid accordingly out of any property comprised in or subject to that charge.
(3)Without prejudice to section 523 of the 1985 Act, where in the case of a company which is being wound up by the court in England and Wales, any person (whether or not a landlord or person entitled to rent) has distrained upon the goods or effects of the company in the period of three months ending with the date of the winding-up order, those goods or effects, or the proceeds of sale of those goods or effects, shall be charged for the benefit of the company with the preferential debts of the company to the extent that the property of the company is for the time being insufficient for meeting them.
(4)Where by virtue of any charge under subsection (3) above any person surrenders any goods or effects to a company or makes a payment to a company, that person shall, in respect of the amount of the proceeds of the sale of those goods or effects by the liquidator of the company or, as the case may be, the amount of the payment, rank as a preferential creditor of the company, except as against so much of the company's property as is available for the payment of preferential creditors by virtue of the surrender or payment.
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