Companies Act, 2013
254.
Application
for revival and rehabilitation.
1. On the determination
of a company as a sick company by the Tribunal under section 253, any secured
creditor of that company or the company may make an application to the Tribunal
for the determination of the measures that may be adopted with respect to the
revival and rehabilitation of such company:
Provided
that in case any reference had been made before the Tribunal and a scheme for
revival and rehabilitation submitted, such reference shall abate if the secured
creditors representing three-fourths in value of the amount outstanding against
financial assistance disbursed to the borrower have taken measures to recover
their secured debt under sub-section (4 ) of section 13 of the
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of
Security Interest Act, 2002:
Provided
further that no reference shall be made under this section if the secured
creditors representing three-fourths in value of the amount outstanding against
financial assistance disbursed to the borrower have taken measures to recover
their secured debt under sub-section (4 ) of section 13 of the
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of
Security Interest Act, 2002:
Provided
also that where the financial assets of the sick company had been acquired by
any securitisation company or reconstruction company under sub-section (1 )
of section 5 of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and
Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002, no such application shall be made
without the consent of securitization company or reconstruction company which
has acquired such assets.
1.
2. An application under
sub-section (1 ) shall be accompanied by—
a.
audited
financial statements of the company relating to the immediately preceding
financial year;
b.
such
particulars and documents, duly authenticated in such manner, along with such
fees as may be prescribed; and
c.
a
draft scheme of revival and rehabilitation of the company in such manner as may
be prescribed:
Provided
that where the sick company has no draft scheme of revival and rehabilitation
to offer, it shall file a declaration to that effect along with the
application.
3. An application under
sub-section (1 ) shall be made to the Tribunal within a period of sixty days
from the date of determination of the company as a sick company by the Tribunal
under section 253.