Companies Act, 2013
319.
Power
of Company Liquidator to accept shares, etc., as consideration for sale of
property of company.
1. Where a company (the
transferor company) is proposed to be, or is in the course of being, wound up
voluntarily and the whole or any part of its business or property is proposed
to be transferred or sold to another company (the transferee company), the
Company Liquidator of the transferor company may, with the sanction of a
special resolution of the company conferring on him either a general authority
or an authority in respect of any particular arrangement,—
a.
receive,
by way of compensation wholly or in part for the transfer or sale of shares,
policies, or other like interest in the transferee company, for distribution
among the members of the transferor company; or
b.
enter
into any other arrangement whereby the members of the transferor company may,
in lieu of receiving cash, shares, policies or other like interest or in
addition thereto, participate in the profits of, or receive any other benefit
from, the transferee company:
Provided
that no such arrangement shall be entered into without the consent of the
secured creditors.
1.
2. Any transfer, sale or
other arrangement in pursuance of this section shall be binding on the members
of the transferor company.
3. Any member of the
transferor company who did not vote in favour of the special resolution and
expresses his dissent therefrom in writing addressed to the Company Liquidator,
and left at the registered office of the company within seven days after the
passing of the resolution, may require the liquidator either—
a.
to
abstain from carrying the resolution into effect; or
b.
to
purchase his interest at a price to be determined by agreement or the
registered valuer.
1.
2.
3.
4. If the Company
Liquidator elects to purchase the member’s interest, the purchase money, raised
by him in such manner as may be determined by a special resolution, shall be
paid before the company is dissolved.