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Companies Act (No. 17 of 1982) - Sect 330

Final meeting and dissolution

330.
(1) As soon as the affairs of the company are fully wound up the liquidator shall make up an account of the winding up, showing how the winding up has been conducted and the property of the company has been disposed of and thereupon shall call a general meeting of the company and a meeting of the creditors, for the purpose of laying the account before the meetings, and giving any explanation thereof.
(2) Every meeting referred to in subsection (1) shall be called by advertisement in the Gazette, specifying the date, time, place, and object thereof, and published at least one month before such date.
(3) Within one week from the date of the meetings referred to in subsection (1) or, where such meetings are not held on the same date, from the date of the later meeting, the liquidator shall send to the Registrar a copy of the account, and shall make a return to him of the holding of the meetings and of their dates, and where the copy is not sent or the return is not made in accordance with the provisions of this subsection the liquidator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which the default continues :
(4) The Registrar on receiving the account and in respect of each meeting referred to in subsection (1), either of the returns referred to in subsection (3), shall forthwith register them, and on the expiration of three months from the date of registration thereof, the company shall be deemed to be dissolved :
(5) It shall be the duty of the person on whose application an order of the court under the provisions of this section is made, within seven days from the date of making of the order to deliver to the Registrar a certified copy of the order for registration, and where that person fails so to do, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty rupees for every day during which the default continues.
(6) Where a liquidator fails to call a general meeting of the company or a meeting of the creditors as required by the provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees.


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