Rule 100: Notice for proving debts

Notice for proving debts.- (1) Subject to the provisions of the Act and directions of the Tribunal, the Company Liquidator in a winding up by the Tribunal shall, within a period of thirty days from the date of order of winding up, fix a certain day, and give a notice of fourteen days thereof

(i)

by advertisement in Form No. WIN 43 in one issue of a daily newspaper In the English language and one issue of a daily newspaper In the regional language widely circulating in the State or Union territory where the registered office is situated concerned to the creditors of the company to prove their debts or claims and to establish any title they may have to priority under section 326 or 327, or to be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts or claims are proved, or, as the case may be, from objecting to such distribution;

(ii)

by such mode of communication as is permitted under section 20 to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs, as a creditor, who has not proved his debt and to every person mentioned in the statement of affairs as a preferential creditor, whose claim to be a preferential creditor has not been established or is not admitted, or where there is no statement of affairs, to the creditors as ascertained from the books of the company and,

to each person who, to the knowledge of the Company Liquidator, claims to be a creditor or preferential creditor of the company and whose claim has not been admitted, to the last known address or place of residence of such person.

(2)

All the rules hereinafter set out as to the admission or rejection of proofs shall apply with necessary variations to any claim to priority as a preferential creditor.