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Part XII · Winding Up

396. Establishment of Companies Liquation Account

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

An Account to be called the Companies

Liquidation Account, shall be kept by the Registrar with such bank as may from time to time be approved by the

Minister in charge of the subject of Finance.

(2)

Whenever the balance standing to the credit of the

Companies Liquidation Account is in the opinion of the

Registrar, in excess of the amount required for the time being to meet claims under section 397, the Registrar shall notify the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury of the excess and shall pay to him, to such account as he may direct, the whole or any part of that excess which he may require. The Deputy

Secretary to the Treasury may invest the sums paid to him or any part of them in Government securities, to be held to the credit of the Companies Liquidation Account.

(3)

When any part of the money paid to the Deputy

Secretary to the Treasury under subsection (2) is in the opinion of the Registrar, required to meet any claim under section 397, the Registrar shall give notice of that requirement to the Deputy Secretaty to the Treasury who shall repay the amount required to the Registrar to the credit of the

Companies Liquidation Account, and may for that purpose sell any of the securities referred to in subsection (2).

(4)

The dividends on investments made under this section shall be paid into the Companies Liquidation Account.

Part XIII

Administrators Appointment of Administrator

Part XIV

Floating Charges

Part XV

Receivers and Managers

Part XVI

Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers

Part XVII

Application of Act to Existing Companies

Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

Part XIX

Advisory Commission

Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

Schedules