Companies Act, 1956
Sec 123 - Payments of
certain debts out of assets subject to floating charge in priority to claims
under the charge.
(1) Where either :
(a) a receiver is appointed on behalf of the
holders of any debentures of a company secured by a floating charge ; or
(b) possession is taken by or on behalf of
those debenture holders of any property comprised in or subject to the charge ;
then, if the company is not at the time in
course of being wound up, the debts which in every winding up are, under the
provisions of Part VII relating to preferential payments, to be paid in
priority to all other debts, shall be paid forthwith out of any assets coming
to the hands of the receiver or other person taking possession as aforesaid in
priority to any claim for principal or interest in respect of the debentures.
(2) In the application of the provisions
aforesaid, section 530 shall be construed as if the provision for payment of
accrued holiday remuneration becoming payable on the termination of employment
before or by the effect of the winding up order or resolution were a provision
for payment of such remuneration becoming payable on the termination of
employment before or by the effect of the appointment of the receiver or
possession being taken as aforesaid.
(3) The periods of time mentioned in the said
provisions of Part VII shall be reckoned from the date of appointment of the
receiver or of possession being taken as aforesaid, as the case may be.
(4) Where the date referred to in sub-section
(3) occurred before the commencement of this Act, sub-sections (1) and (3)
shall have effect with the substitution, for references to the said provisions
of Part VII, of references to the provisions which, by virtue of sub-section
(9) of section 530, are deemed to remain in force in the case therein
mentioned, and sub-section (2) shall not apply.
(5) Any payments made under this section shall
be recouped, as far as may be, out of the assets of the company available for
payment of general creditors.