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COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 241

Power to summon persons suspected of having property of company, etc.

241.(1) The court may, at any time after the appointment of a provisional
liquidator or the making of a winding-up order, summon before it any officer
of the company or person known or suspected to have in his possession any
property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company, or any
person whom the court deems capable of giving information concerning the
promotion, formation, trade, dealings, affairs or property of the company.

(2) The court may examine him on oath concerning the matters aforesaid, either
by word of mouth or on written interrogatories, and may reduce his answers to
writing and require him to sign them.

(3) The court may require him to produce any books and papers in his custody
or power relating to the company, but, where he claims any lien on books or
papers produced by him, the production shall be without prejudice to that
lien, and the court shall have jurisdiction in the winding up to determine all
questions relating to that lien.

(4) If any person so summoned, after being tendered a reasonable sum for his
expenses, refuses to come before the court at the time appointed, not having a
lawful impediment (made known to the court at the time of its sitting and
allowed by it), the court may cause him to be apprehended and brought before
the court for examination.[


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