THE CORPORATIONS LAW

CHAPTER 5 - EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATION

PART 5.6 - WINDING UP GENERALLY

Division 6 - Proof and ranking of claims

Subdivision A - Admission to proof of debts and claims

SECTION 553E   APPLICATION OF BANKRUPTCY ACT TO WINDING UP OF INSOLVENT COMPANY  

553E    Subject to this Division and to section 279, in the winding up of an insolvent company the same rules are to prevail and be observed with regard to debts provable as are in force for the time being under the Bankruptcy Act 1966 in relation to the estates of bankrupt persons (except the rules in sections 82 to 94 (inclusive) and 96 of that Act), and all persons who in any such case would be entitled to prove for and receive dividends out of the property of the company may come in under the winding up and make such claims against the company as they respectively are entitled to because of this section.


 

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