Companies Act, 1956
Sec 534 - Effect of floating charge.
Where a company is being wound-up, a floating charge on the
undertaking or property of the company created within the twelve months
immediately preceding the commencement of the winding up, shall, unless it is
proved that the company immediately after the creation of the charge was
solvent, be invalid, except to the amount of any cash paid to the company at
the time of, or subsequently to the creation of, and in consideration for, the
charge, together with interest on that amount at the rate of five per cent per
annum or such other rate as may for the time being be notified by the Central
Government in this behalf in the Official Gazette :
Provided that in relation to a charge created more than
three months before the commencement of this Act, this section shall have effect
with the substitution, for references to twelve months of references to three
months.