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PART IX
WINDING UP PF UNREGISTERED COMBINES
371. Meaning
of "unregarded company" --
For the
purposes of this Part, the expression" unregistered company shall
not include a company registered under this Act or under any company
law in force at any time company consisting of more than seven members
and not registered under this Act or the said company with the following
exceptions and additions, namely:--
(a) no unregistered
company shall be wound up under this Act voluntarily or subject to
supervision of the Court;
(b) the circumstance
in which an unregistered company may be wound up are as follows namely;--
(i) if the company
is dissolved or has ceased to carry on business or is carrying on
business only for the purpose of winding up its affairs;
(ii) if the company
is unable to pay its debts;
(iii) if the Court
is of option that is just and equitable that the company should be
wound up.
(c) an unregarded
company shall for the purposes of this section deemed to be unable
to pay its debts.
(i) if a creditor,
by assignment or otherwise to who the company is indebted in a sum
exceeding five hundred taka then due has served on the company, by
leaving at its principal place of business, or by delivering to the
secretary, or some directly, serving in such manner as the Court may
approve or direct a demand under his hand REQUIRING the company tot
he pay service of the demand neglected to pay the sum or to secure
or compound for it to the satisfaction of the creator; or
(ii) if any suit or
other legal proceeding has been instituted against any member or any
debt or demand due or claimed to be due from the comma or from him
in his character of member, and notice in writing of the institution
of the suit or other legal proceeding having been served on the company
by leaving the same at its p[principle place of business or by delivering
it to the secretary, or some director, `manager or principal office
of the company or by otherwise serving the same in such manner as
the Court may approve or direct, the company has not within ten days
after service of the notice paid, secured or compounded for the debt
or demand, procured an order for the suit or other legal proceeding
to be stayed, or indemnified the said member or defendant to this
reasonable satisfaction against the suitor defendant to his reasonable
against all costs, damages and expense to be in incurred by him by
reason of the same; or
(iii) if execution
or other process issued on a decree or order obtained in any Court
in favour of a creditor against the company, or any member thereof
as such, or any person authorized to be used as nominal defendant
on behalf of the company , is returned unsatisfied; or
(IV) if it is otherwise
proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the company is unable
to pay its debts.
(2) Nothing in this
Part shall affect the operation of any enactment which provides for
any partnership, association or company being wound up or being wound
up as a company or as unregistered company , under any enactment repealed
by this Act, except that reference in any such any enactment repealed
enactment shall be read as reference to the corresponding provision,
if nay, of this Act.
(3) Where a company
incorporate outside Bangladesh which has been carrying on business
in Bangladesh, it may be wound up as an unregisor otherwise ceased
to exist as a company under or by vulture of the laws of the country
under which it was incorporated.
373. Contributors
in winding up of unregistered Companies.--(1)
In the event of an unregistered comma being wound up, every person
shall be deemed to a contributory who is liable to pay or contribute
to the payment of any debt or liability of the company, or to pay
or contribute to the payment of any sum for the adjustment of the
rights of the members among themselves, or to pay or contribute to
the payment of the costs and expenses of eyeing up the company, and
every contributory shall be to contribute to the assets of the company
all sums due from him imp respect of any such liability as aforesaid.
(2) In the event of
any contributory dying or being adjudged insolvent contributors.
374. Power
to stay or restrain proceedings.--
The provisions of this Act with respect to staying and restraining
suits and legal proceedings against a company at any time after the
presentation of a petition for winding up and before the making of
a winding up order shall, in the case of an unregistered company,
where the application OT stay or restrains is by a creditor, extend
to skittish and legal proceedings against any contributory of the
company.
375. Restrictions
on commencing etc. of suit after winding up order.--Where
an order has been made for winding up of a company under this Part,
no suit or other legal proceedings shall bee proceeded with or commenced
against except by leave of the Court , and subject OT such terms as
the Court may impose.
376. Courts
directions as to property in certain cases.-- If
an unregistered company has no power to sue and be sued in a common
name, or if for any reason it appears expedient the Court may by the
winding in order, or by any subsequent order, direct that all or any
part of the property, movable and immovable, and including obligations
and actionable claims as may belong to the company or OT trestles
on its befall is to vest in the official liquidator by his official
named and thereupon the property or the part thereof specified in
the order shall best accordingly, and the official liquidator may,
after giving such indemnity , if any, as the Court may direct, bring
or defend in his official name any suit or other legal proceeding
relating tot that property, or necessary to be brought or defended
for purposes of effectually winding up the company and recovering
its property.
377. Provisions
of this part cumulative.--
The provisions of this Part with respect to unregistered companies
shall be addition to, and not in restriction of, any provision herein
before in this Act contained with respect OT winding upcompnaies by
the Court and the Court official liquidator may exercise any powers
or do any act in the case of unregistered Combines which might be
exercised or done by t or him in the winding up of Combines formed
and registered under this Act; but an unregistered company shall not
except in the event of its being wound up, be deemed OT be a company
under this Act, and then only to the extent provided by this Part.
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